Title: Joseph Wright of Derby: An Exhibition to Commemorate the Centenary of Derby Museums and Art Gallery
Venue: Derby Museum and Art Gallery
Dates: from 21/04/1979 to 21/07/1979
Title: Drawings by Joseph Wright of Derby
Venue: Derby Museum and Art Gallery
Dates: from 31/03/1990 to 22/04/1990
Title: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734-1797: Bicentenary Exhibition
Venue: Derby Museum and Art Gallery
Dates: from 21/06/1997 to 28/09/1997
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Venue: Pickford's House Museum
Dates: from 01/06/2010 to 05/09/2010

Title: Joseph Wright of Derby 1734 - 1797
Sub-Title: An introduction to the work of Joseph Wright of Derby with a catalogue of drawings held by Derby Museum and Art Gallery. Published on the occasion of an exhibition commemorating the Bicentenary of the artist's death.
Published Place: Derby
Published Year: 1997

Joseph Wright of Derby (Artist)
Display Date: British, 1734 - 1797
Nationality: British
Biography: Artist.

Study of 'The Dead Asiatic', after the Antique

Date: 1.10.1774

Medium: Pen and ink over pencil on laid paper, toned with grey-blue wash.

Object Type:	Drawing
Dimensions:	Support: 359 × 543 mm (14 1/8 × 21 3/8 in.)
Description:	Nicolson explains the inscription 'Lungara Oct 1st 74' is short for via della Lungara where Wright could have been working at Palazzo Corsini or the Farnesina. This study is one of the most extreme of Wright's untraditional angles of view. The steeply foreshortened pose of the statue appeared later as a source for the male figure in the painting 'The Dead Soldier', 1789. Wright may not yet have had this use for the statue in mind as he drew it again the following day from a more conventional angle. [George Baker in Jane Wallis's exhibition catalogue: 1997]
Inscriptions:	Inscribed on recto, to lower left (handwritten in ink): 'Lungara Octr. 1st 74' and to top right (handwritten in ink) a illegible number, perhaps '3'?
Provenance:	William Bemrose of Derby; by descent to his son Charles Lloyd Bemrose(?), by whom donated to Derby Museums in 1914.
Viewing Status:	Contact Us
Item Ref:	1914-517/20