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Behold the Sea (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-06-14 - 2003-09-07)
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Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04)
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Charles Brooking, 1723–1759
Ship on Fire at Night
ca. 1756
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Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756
Boy Lighting a Candle
1751