- Title:
- Shipping in the English Channel
- Former Title(s):
English Shipping in a Breeze in the Channel, 'Evening', c.1755
Men O' War off a Coast
Man o' War off a Coast
Men o' War off a Coast- Date:
- ca. 1755
- Materials & Techniques:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 35 1/2 x 46 3/8 inches (90.2 x 117.8 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:
- B1981.25.65
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.65FR
- Subject Terms:
- boats | cliffs | clouds | cutter (sailing vessel) | flags | frigates | marine art | sea | seascape | shipping | ships | sloop (sailing vessel)
- Associated Places:
- England | English Channel | Europe | United Kingdom
- Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:575
- Export:
- XML
- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Anecdotes of painters..., Leigh and Sotheby, London, p. 5, ND496 E3 1808+ (YCBA) [YCBA]
E. H. H. Archibald, Dictionary of sea painters, Antique Collector's Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K., p. 73, ND1370 A72+ (YCBA) [YCBA]
Laura Beach, Spreading Canvas : Eighteenth-Centry British Marine Painting, Antiques and the Arts Weekly, vol. 48, Bee Publishing Company, Newtown, November 4, 2016, p. 30, V 2718 (YCBA) [YCBA]
British Art at Yale, Apollo, vol.105, April 1977, pp. 288, 291, fig. 6, N1 .A54 + OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Malcolm Cormack, A Selective Promenade, Apollo, vol.105, April 1977, pp. 288, 291, fig. 10, N1 A54 + (YCBA) [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) [YCBA]
Malcolm Cormack, Seascapes : Yale Center for British Art., , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1977, p. [ 5 ], no. 15, V 1909 (YCBA) Vertical File [YCBA]
Martina Droth, Britain in the world : Highlights from the Yale Center for British Art in honor of Amy Meyers, Yale University Press, New Haven, London, 2019, pp. 44, 46 (detail), N6761 .Y33 2019 (LC) (YCBA) [YCBA]
John Ellis, An essay towards a natural history of the corallines, and other maringe productions of the like kind, commonly found on the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland ..., London, p. vii., QL379 E55 (BEIN) [ORBIS]
Joseph Farington, The Diary of Joseph Farington, , Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1978, vol. 3, p. 766, NJ18 F2164 A3 1978 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Ferens Art Gallery, Marine paintings : A Festival of Britain Exhibition, , Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1951, p. 37, no. 27, ND1373 G7 M275 1951 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Luke Herrmann, The Paul Mellon Collection at Burlington House, Connoisseur, vol. 157, December 1964, p. 219, fig. 12, N1 C75 + OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Eleanor Hughes, Spreading Canvas : Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2016, Jacket Illustration, p. 154, 180-181, cat. 47, fig. 47, ND 1373.G74 S67 2016 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , , Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 50 (v.1), no. 25, pl. 23, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, p. 45 (v.1), No. 166, pl. 6, N5220.M45 R69 1964 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Martin Postle, Johan Zoffany, RA : Society Observed, , Yale University Press, New Haven, 2011, pp. 227-228, NJ18 Z68 + A12 2011 Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]
Basil Taylor, Charles Brooking, 1723-1759, paintings, drawings and engravings : an exhibition arranged by the Paul Mellon Foundation for British Art in association with the Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts, 9-21 June 1966, and the Bristol City Art Gallery, 1-30 July 1966., Westerham Press, London, p. 6, NJ18 B824 P38+ (YCBA) [YCBA]
Yale Center for British Art, Selected paintings, drawings & books, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1977, p. 20, N590.2 A82 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Yale University Art Gallery, Painting in England, 1700-1850, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon : [exhibition at] Yale University Art Gallery, April 15-June 20, 1965, , vol. 1, W. Clowes and sons, New Haven, 1965, p. 4 (v.1), no. 18, pl. 6, ND466 Y35 (YCBA) [YCBA]