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Title
Ship on Fire at Night
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Date
ca. 1756
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Materials & Techniques
Oil on canvas
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Dimensions
12 1/2 x 17 inches (31.8 x 43.2 cm)
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Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering
Signed in black paint, lower left: "C. Brooking"
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Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status
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Accession Number
B1981.25.69
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Classification
Paintings
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Collection
Paintings and Sculpture
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Link to Frame
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Subject Terms
beach | boats | castle | costume | cutter (sailing vessel) | disaster | fire | flames | fort | harbor | marine art | men | night | port | sailboats | sea | seamen | seascape | ship | shore (landform) | smoke
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Access
Not on view
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Export
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IIIF Manifest
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]
Behold the Sea (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-06-14 - 2003-09-07) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
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. 16, V 1909 (YCBA) Vertical File [YCBA]
Eleanor Hughes, Spreading Canvas : Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2016, p. 178, cat. 44, ND 1373.G74 S67 2016 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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