Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Charles Brooking, 1723–1759, British
Title:
Ship wrecked on a rocky coast
Date:
between 1747 and 1750
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
14 1/2 x 22 inches (36.8 x 55.9 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:
B1981.25.71
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
cargo vessel | ship | boat | seascape | marine art | sea | boulders | science | meteorology | disaster | storm | shipwreck | waves (natural events)
Associated Places:
United Kingdom | England | East Sussex | Beachy Head
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:
Andrew Causey, British Marine Painter Revalued, Illustrated London News, Vol. 244, London, p. 28-29, 18 I16 (Lewis Walpole Library)

Christie's sale catalogue : 19th and 20th Century Drawings and Paintings : 1 November 1963, Christie's, November 1, 1963, p. 8, Lot 33, Fiche B51 Auction Catalogues (YCBA)

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. 13, V 1909 (YCBA) Vertical File

Eleanor Hughes, Spreading Canvas : Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2016, p. 179, cat. 45, ND 1373.G74 S67 2016 (YCBA)

David Joel, Charles Brooking, 1723-1759, and the 18th Century Marine Painters, Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, p. 105, No. 401B, NJ18 B824 J64 2000 (YCBA)

Paul Mellon Foundation for British Art, Charles Brooking, 1723-1759 : Paintings, Drawings, and Engravings, Westerham Press, London, p. 17, 33, No. 17, NJ18 B824 P38+ Oversize (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:581