# Ship

[View the canonical artwork record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-master-netherlandish-re96e0136ea7dba/ship-r54669deca1fa39>)

## Artwork

- Artist: [UNKNOWN MASTER, Netherlandish](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-master-netherlandish-re96e0136ea7dba>)
- Date: 1451-1500
- Technique: Engraving, 165 x 134 mm

## Commentary

The artist signed his prints with the monogram of a W and an A with a key or cross. He was active in Bruges during the reign of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy \(1467-77\). Most of his 81 prints were intended as models for other artists. He was widely known for his depictions of ships, the earliest to survive from the history of printmaking. The artist is referred to as Master W with the Key.

## Related artworks

- [A Bathhouse](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-master-netherlandish-re96e0136ea7dba/a-bathhouse-r82268e09fcf3a3>)
- [A Cistercian Abbot](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-master-netherlandish-re96e0136ea7dba/a-cistercian-abbot-r9b5e5d6cac84a9>)
- [Bellows with the Fight into Egypt](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-master-netherlandish-re96e0136ea7dba/bellows-with-the-fight-into-egypt-r1eb2f677bda5ef>)
- [Caesar Augustus and the Tiburtine Sibyl](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-master-netherlandish-re96e0136ea7dba/caesar-augustus-and-the-tiburtine-sibyl-r49d09ebac2bcea>)
- [Calvary of Hendrik van Rijn](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-master-netherlandish-re96e0136ea7dba/calvary-of-hendrik-van-rijn-raafadb9c84ed7b>)
- [Canticum Canticorum](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-master-netherlandish-re96e0136ea7dba/canticum-canticorum-rf3382908068ef4>)
- [Combat between the Actor and the Age](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-master-netherlandish-re96e0136ea7dba/combat-between-the-actor-and-the-age-r254faf5093a503>)
- [Commemorative Medal](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-master-netherlandish-re96e0136ea7dba/commemorative-medal-r4208464b7fb906>)
- [Eighteen Scenes from the Life of Christ](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-master-netherlandish-re96e0136ea7dba/eighteen-scenes-from-the-life-of-christ-r6f56febbf854a4>)
- [Emblem](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-master-netherlandish-re96e0136ea7dba/emblem-rd5ede00e15118d>)
- [Four Canons with Sts Augustine and Jerome, with the Visitation](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-master-netherlandish-re96e0136ea7dba/four-canons-with-sts-augustine-and-jerome-with-the-visitation-rb520efd96b9b35>)
- [Interior of a Gothic Church](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/unknown-master-netherlandish-re96e0136ea7dba/interior-of-a-gothic-church-r589d28e62bb0bd>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)