- Title:
Portrait of a Man
- Date:
- ca. 1768
- Medium:
- Black chalk, white chalk and brown chalk on medium, slightly textured, white laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 14 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches (36.8 x 28.6 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.6320
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- collar | figure study | genre subject | hand | hat | man | portrait | ruff | turban
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:15340
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Joseph Wright of Derby in Liverpool (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-05-22 - 2008-08-30) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-12-05 - 1980-02-17) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Elizabeth E. Barker, Joseph Wright of Derby in Liverpool, Yale University Press, Liverpool New Haven, 2007, pp. 48, 177-8, no. 51, fig. 42, NJ18 W95 B36 2007 + (YCBA) [YCBA]
John Baskett, Paul Mellon's Legacy: a Passion for British Art: Masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, pp. 259-60, no. 40, pl. 40, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
Matthew Craske, Joseph Wright of Derby : Painter of darkness, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, pp. 204-205, fig. 135, NJ18.W95 C72 2020+ (YCBA) [YCBA]
Joseph Wright of Derby, a selection of paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon. [Exhibition] November 22, 1969 to May 1, 1970. , National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1969, pp. 1, 13, cat. 1, NJ18 W95 U5 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Stephen Leach, The adventures and speculations of the ingenious Peter Perez Burdett, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2023, p. 62, fig. 6.1, NJ18 B8953 L43 2023 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Benedict Nicolson, Joseph Wright of Derby : Painter of Light, Paul Mellon Foundation for British Art, London, New York, 1968, Vol. I, p. 38, n. 1, p. 229; Vol. II, pl. 69, pl. 69, NJ18 W95 +N53 Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]
Patrick Noon, English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures, Yale Center for British Art, 1979, pp. 67-68, no. 72, NC772 N66+ (Wall Shelf) (YCBA) [YCBA]
Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 2, no. 40, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
David H. Solkin, Painting for money, the visual arts and the public sphere in eighteenth-century England , The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 1993, p. 242, N5205.7 G7 S65 1993 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 27, no. 12, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA) [YCBA]