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