Ships in Distress off a Rocky Coast by Ludolf Backhuysen https://www.nga.gov/artworks/65898-ships-distress-rocky-coast
The three cargo ships in this large painting are the type of wide-bellied, seagoing vessels used to transport much of the commodities that generated the wealth of the Dutch in the seventeenth century. Flying the red, white, and blue flag of the Dutch Republic, these floating symbols of national prosperity are nevertheless in peril of crashing on the rocky shore.
The top of a tall wooden mast along with a broken wooden pole poke up from emerald-green