- Title:
- Ship on Fire at Night
- Date:
- ca. 1756
- Materials & Techniques:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 12 1/2 x 17 inches (31.8 x 43.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed in black paint, lower left: "C. Brooking"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.69
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.69FR
- Subject Terms:
- beach | boats | castle | costume | cutter (sailing vessel) | disaster | fire | flames | fort | harbor | marine art | men | night | port | sailboats | sea | seamen | seascape | ship | shore (landform) | smoke
- Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:579
- Export:
- XML
- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
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Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 42-43, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Malcolm Cormack, Seascapes : Yale Center for British Art., , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1977, p. [ 5 ], no. 16, V 1909 (YCBA) Vertical File [YCBA]
Eleanor Hughes, Spreading Canvas : Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2016, p. 178, cat. 44, ND 1373.G74 S67 2016 (YCBA) [YCBA]