Exhibitions:

Title: 21st Exhibition of the Royal Academy
Venue: Royal Academy of Arts
Dates: from 15/04/1789 to 15/04/1789
Title: Joseph Wright and the Lure of Italy
Venue: Derby Museum and Art Gallery
Dates: from 18/03/2016 to 12/06/2016

Publications

Title: Joseph Wright of Derby: Painter of Light
Sub-Title: Volume 1
Volume: 1
Published Place: London
Copyright: Benedict Nicolson, 1968
Published Year: 1968

Related People

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

The Colosseum, Rome - Moonlight

Date: 1789

Medium: Oil on canvas.

Object Type:	Painting
Dimensions:	Frame: 1340 × 1600 × 140 mm (52 3/4 × 63 × 5 1/2 in.) Support: 1016 × 1270 mm (40 × 50 in.)
Description:	the Colosseum, Rome, moonlight
Inscriptions:	'I. W. P. / 1789' recto, lower right, on face of masonry.
Provenance:	Listed in Wright’s Account Book as ‘Parts of the Colleseum sunshine; Do. its Companion moonlight £52.10.0 (each)’; remained unsold during Wright's lifetime; offered at his posthumous sale, Christie’s 6 May 1801 (lot 55, as 'A View of Ditto by Moonlight, with a Figure of a Friar at his evening Devotion to the Virgin' (a companion to 'The Colosseo at Rome with Figures'), whereupon purchased by Thomas Borrow (later Borough) of Derby and later Chetwynd Park, Salop; by descent to Colonel John G. Burton Borough of Chetwynd Park, Salop; by whom bequeathed to Derby Museums in 1961.
Viewing Status:	Contact Us
Item Ref:	1961-508/5