Medium: painting (technique) / Creator: Wright, Joseph, 1734–1797

1. The Blacksmith's Shop

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Date:: 1771
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 1/2 x 41 inches (128.3 x 104.1 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. William and Margaret from Percy's 'Reliques of Ancient English Poetry'

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Date:: ca. 1785
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 48 x 55 inches (121.9 x 139.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Cavern, near Naples

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Date:: 1774
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 x 50 inches (101.6 x 127 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Pamela Askew

4. A Grotto in the Gulf of Salerno, Sunset

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Date:: 1780 to 1781
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 x 50 inches (101.6 x 127 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. Dr. Richard Wright

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Date:: 1785 to 1789
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 29 3/4 × 24 3/4 inches (75.6 × 62.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Date:: ca. 1768
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 17 5/8 x 23 1/2 inches (44.8 x 59.7 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Studies of a Classical Bust

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Date:: 1774 to 1775
Medium:: Oil on paper, laid on canvas
Dimensions:: 20 × 16 7/8 inches (50.8 × 42.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Dovedale

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Date:: 1786
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 1/4 × 33 1/4 inches (64.1 × 84.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. A Lake by Moonlight

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Date:: 1780 to 1782
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 1/2 × 29 3/4 inches (62.2 × 75.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. Virgil's Tomb by Moonlight, with Silius Italicus

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Date:: 1779
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 1/16 x 50 1/4 inches (101.8 x 127.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Portrait of a Man, Known as the "Indian Captain"

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Date:: ca. 1767
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 90 1/4 x 54 1/2 inches (229.2 x 138.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Cottage on Fire at Night

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Date:: between 1785 and 1793
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 22 1/4 × 31 1/2 inches (56.5 × 80 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. The Prisoner

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Date:: 1787 to 1790
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 16 x 18 1/2 inches (40.6 x 47 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Lake Nemi

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Date:: between 1790 and 1795
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 1/4 × 21 1/2 inches (36.2 × 54.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Lake Albano

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Date:: 1790 to 1792
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 14 1/4 × 21 1/2 inches (36.2 × 54.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Matlock Dale, looking toward Black Rock Escarpment

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Date:: between 1780 and 1785
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 23 x 30 inches (58.4 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Derwent Water, with Skiddaw in the distance

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Date:: between 1795 and 1796
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 22 1/4 x 31 1/2 inches (56.5 x 80 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. The Rev. and Mrs. Thomas Gisborne, of Yoxall Lodge, Staffordshire

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Date:: 1786
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 73 x 60 inches (185.4 x 152.4 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Landscape with a Rainbow

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Date:: between 1793 and 1794
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 27 1/2 × 39 5/16 inches (69.9 × 99.9 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund, in honor of Duncan Robinson, Director, Yale Center for British Art (1981–1995)

20. Matlock Tor by Moonlight

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Date:: between 1777 and 1780
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 25 × 30 inches (63.5 × 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Lake Scene

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Date:: 1790
Medium:: oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 21 x 30 inches (53.3 x 76.2 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Michael D. Coe, Yale MAH 1968 in memory of Sophie D. Coe

22. The Thistlethwayte Family

Creator:: Thomas Hudson, 1701–1779, British
Date:: ca. 1758
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 73 1/4 × 84 1/2 inches (186.1 × 214.6 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

23. Self-Portrait

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Date:: ca. 1780
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 24 x 28 3/4 inches (61 x 73 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

24. Joseph Wright of Derby

Creator:: Attributed to Richard Hurleston, active 1763–1780, British
Date:: between 1774 and 1776
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 26 1/2 x 22 1/4 inches (67.3 x 56.5 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. The Dead Soldier

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Date:: ca. 1789
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 40 × 50 inches (101.6 × 127 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Vesuvius from Posillipo

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Date:: ca. 1788
Medium:: Oil on panel
Dimensions:: 25 x 33 inches (63.5 x 83.8 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Academy by Lamplight

Creator:: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Date:: 1769
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 50 x 39 3/4 inches (127 x 101 cm)
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. The Blacksmith's Shop

2. William and Margaret from Percy's 'Reliques of Ancient English Poetry'

3. Cavern, near Naples

4. A Grotto in the Gulf of Salerno, Sunset

5. Dr. Richard Wright

6. Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery

7. Studies of a Classical Bust

8. Dovedale

9. A Lake by Moonlight

10. Virgil's Tomb by Moonlight, with Silius Italicus

11. Portrait of a Man, Known as the "Indian Captain"

12. Cottage on Fire at Night

13. The Prisoner

14. Lake Nemi

15. Lake Albano

16. Matlock Dale, looking toward Black Rock Escarpment

17. Derwent Water, with Skiddaw in the distance

18. The Rev. and Mrs. Thomas Gisborne, of Yoxall Lodge, Staffordshire

19. Landscape with a Rainbow

20. Matlock Tor by Moonlight

21. Lake Scene

22. The Thistlethwayte Family

23. Self-Portrait

24. Joseph Wright of Derby

25. The Dead Soldier

26. Vesuvius from Posillipo

27. Academy by Lamplight