Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Charles Brooking, 1723–1759, British
Title:
English Ships Running before a Gale
Date:
before 1759
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
15 x 23 inches (38.1 x 58.4 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.73
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
clouds | sea | meteorology | science | wind | square-rigged ships | ships | flag | seascape | marine art | storm | waves (natural events)
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Out to Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2022-03-11 - 2022-03-28)

Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04)
Publications:
Behold, the sea itself, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2003, V 1308 (YCBA)

Behold, the sea itself, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven : CT, V1308

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)

Robin Simon, Shakespeare, Hogarth, and Garrick : plays, paintings and performances, Paul Holberton Publishing, London, 2023, p. 74, fig. 64, N8252 .S56 2023 (YCBA) Oversize
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:583