Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Charles Brooking, 1723–1759, British
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
Subject Terms:
men | seamen | night | flames | smoke | sea | harbor | shore (landform) | fort | castle | costume | boats | ship | sailboats | cutter (sailing vessel) | seascape | beach | port | marine art | disaster | fire
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04)

Behold the Sea (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-06-14 - 2003-09-07)
Publications:
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)

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

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)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:579