Joseph Wright of Derby
Part of the Colosseum Seen in Sunlight.
c.1774-5. Pen and brown ink and wash on paper. 38.1 x 51.7 cm. Derby Art Gallery, Derby, UK.
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Boy with Plumed Hat and Greyhound.
Self-Portrait at the Age of about Twenty.
Anne Bateman, Later Mrs John Gisborne.
William Brooke.
Anne or Molly Cracroft.
Simon Wilmot.
Harvey Wilmot.
Girl Reading a Letter by Candlelight, With a Young Man Peering over Her...
Mrs Andrew Lindington.
Francis Noel Clarke Mundy.
Harry Peckham.
Nicholas Heath.
Edward Becher Leacroft.
Mrs Wilmot in Riding Dress.
Mr and Mrs William Chase.
Samuel Rastall.
William Rastall.
James and Mary Shuttleworth with One of Their Daughters.
Three Persons Viewing the Gladiator by Candlelight.
Peter Perez Burdett and His First Wife Hannah.
Self-Portrait.
A Philosopher Giving That Lecture on the Orrery, in Which a Lamp is Put in...
Robert Vernon Atherton Gwillym.
Mrs Robert Gwillym.
Cornet Sir George Cooke.
A Young Girl Reading a Letter, with an Old Man Reading over Her Shoulder.
Two Boys Fighting over a Bladder.
Self-Portrait in a Black Feathered Hat.
Two Girls Dressing a Kitten by Candlelight.
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump.
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump. Detail.
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump. Detail.
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump. Detail.
Study of a Young Girl with Feathers in Her Hair.
Study of a Young Girl in a Turban and Frilled Collar.
An Academy by Lamplight.
Mrs John Ashton.
Mrs. Sarah Clayton.
Fleetwood Hesketh.
A Philosopher by Lamp Light.
Mrs Catherine Swindell.
A Conversation of Girls (Two Girls with Their Black Servant).
Thomas Day.
Erasmus Darwin.
Portrait of a Lady with Her Lacework.
Study of the Interior of Glass-House.
An Open Hearth with a Fire.
Blot Drawing in a Manner of Alexander Cozens.
Landscape Study Development from a Blot.
A Blacksmith's Shop.
A Blacksmith's Shop.
Mr and Mrs Coltman.
The Alchymist, in Search of the Philosopher's Stone, Discovers Phosphorus,...
'Captain' Robert Shore Milnes.
Miravan Breaking Open the Tomb of His Ancestors.
Rocks with Waterfall.
Self-Portrait at the Age of About Forty.
An Iron Forge.
An Iron Forge Viewed from Without.
The Earthstopper on the Banks of the Derwent.
The Old Man and Death.
The Captive, from Sterne.
Inside the Arcade of the Colosseum.
Vesuvius in Eruption.
Study of the Terrain near Vesuvius.
A Cavern, Morning.
A Cavern, Evening.
An Eruption of Vesuvius, Seen from Portici.
A View of Mount Etna and a Nearby Town.
Study of Melancholy Girl.
Study for "The Old Man Grieving over His Ass ", from Sterne.
Study of John Staveley's Head for Wright's Second Version of "The Captive,...
John Milnes.
Vesuvius in Eruption, with a View over the Islands in the Bay of Naples.
The Annual Girandola, at the Castle of St. Angelo, Rome.
Maria, from Sterne.
Edwin, from Dr Beattie's.
Vesuvius in Eruption.
Richard Cheslyn.
Thomas and Joseph Pickford as Children.
Rev. John Pickering.
A Grotto by the Sea-Side in the Kingdom of Naples, with Banditti; a Sun-Set.
An Eruption of Mount Vesuvius, with the Procession of St. Januarius's Head.
The Girandola, or Grand Fire Work at the Castle of St. Angelo in Rome.
Virgil's Tomb, with the Figure of Silius Italicus.
A Grotto in the Gulf of Salernum, with the Figure of Julia, Banished from Rome.
Francis Hurt.
Mrs Francis Hurt.
Samuel Crompton.
Mrs Samuel Crompton.
Old John, Head Waiter at the King's Head in Derby.
Portrait of a Girl in a Tawny-Colored Dress.
View in Matlock Dale, Looking South to Black Rock Escarpment.
John Whetham of Kirklington, Nottinghamshire.
The Rev. D'Ewes Coke, His Wife Hannah and Daniel Parker Coke.
Christopher Heath.
Maria, from Sterne, a Companion to the Picture of Edwin.
Brooke Boothby.
The Corinthian Maid.
Arkwright's Cotton Mills by Night.
Erasmus Darwin.
John Whitehurst FRS.
Self-Portrait at the Age of about Fifty.
Virgil's Tomb: Sun Breaking through a Cloud.
The Lady in Milton's Comus.
The Widow of an Indian Chief Watching the Arms of Her Deceased Husband.
Penelope Unravelling Her Web, by Lamp Light.
Landscape with Dale Abbey and Church Rocks.
Sunset on the Coast near Naples.
Dovedale by Moonlight.
View in Dovedale.
The Convent of San Cosimato and Part of the Claudian Aqueduct near Vicovaro...
Rev. Thomas Gisborne and His Wife Mary.
A Cottage on Fire.
Moonlight with a Lake and Castellated Tower.
Small Prison Scene.
Lady Wilmot and Her Child.
Matlock Tor by Daylight.
Sir Richard Arkwright.
Charles Hurt of Wirksworth.
Susannah Hurt with Her Daughter Mary Anne.
Romeo and Juliet. The Tomb Scene. "Noise again! then I'll be brief".
Lake Albano.
Lake Nemi.
Lake Nemi at Sunset.
Landscape near Bedgellert, North Wales.
Italian Landscape.
Landscape with Figures and a Tilted Cart: Matlock Hogh Tor in the Distance.
Jedediah Strutt.
Samuel Oldknow.
Harriet Wright, the Artist's Daughter.
Landscape with a Rainbow.
Ullswater.
