This is an early-18th-century engraving of the Prussian royal yacht Liburnica. The inscription suggests she may be arriving at Szczecin. The large building in the right background has been tentatively identified as the ducal castle. Her ornate and beautiful stern decoration is prominently displayed in this starboard quarter view. Flags, carrying the crowned Prussian eagle with the sword and sceptre, stream out from her rigging, a fanfare sounds from her stern and a cannon fires in celebration from the shore. Her decks are thronged with figures in wigs, many of whom are under an awning that stretches from the stern to the main mast. Spectators fill every conceivable space, both on shore and in small vessels surrounding the ship. The Latin inscription beneath the engraving reads: ‘Liburnica, 82 feet long, 23 feet wide, armed with 22 bronze cannon, fitted out with nautical equipment of every kind and the most magnificent embellishments, decorated with stern ornaments and other ornaments as well, and rightly magnificent in the name of the First King of Prussia, which Frederick the Most Majestic King of Prussia, founder of his kingdom, ordered to be built to a pattern approved by himself in Belgium, and, the open sea left behind, brought up the Sueven River so that he might use her for proud display and so that he might benefit by the representation and pleasure of maritime navigation among the delights of the Marchian sky.’ The March or Electorate of Brandenburg became the Kingdom of Prussia in 1701 when the Elector Frederick III crowned himself King Frederick I, the first King of Prussia referred to in the engraving. The River Oder, also referred to, flows north to the Baltic Sea through what, until 1701, was the March of Brandenburg.