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Description: | A painting demonstrating a variety of sailing vessels becalmed. To the right, the coastline is visible beyond the line of three men-of-war lying at anchor. To the right, in the foreground, a small boat with a dipping lugsail sails out of the frame in starboard-broadside view with five people on board. Towards the centre a cutter-rigged hoy, with all sail set to a topgallant and apparently with her outer jib boomed out to starboard, is in stern view. A similar vessel is on the far left and in between what may be a frigate or small Indiaman becalmed since, despite having a lion figurehead, she is not flying a naval pennant. A cloud towers to the right and spreads across the sky, darkening to the top right. The artist has signed his name on a buoy, lower left.
Signed on a barrel in the lower left : C. Brooking
caption: Shipping in Light Airs in the Thames Estuary | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | paintings | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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