Yale Center for British Art

Creator:: Charles Brooking, 1723–1759, British
Title:: English Ships Under Sail in a Very Light Breeze
Date:: ca. 1752
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 15 x 23 inches (38.1 x 58.4 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:: Signed in brown paint, lower left: "C Brooking"
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:: Public Domain
Accession Number:: B1981.25.72
Classification:: Paintings
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:: marine art | seascape | flags | ships | boats | ships of the line | warships | sloops (sailing vessels) | ships, full-rigged | sailboats | sea | merchants
Currently On View:: Not on view
Publications:: Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 44-45, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)
Link:: https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:582