Pencil and ink wash drawing by Joseph Wright, inscribed on reverse 'Low End of Derwentwater from Crow Park'; titled verso (top centre) in ink and also 'bt. Sotheby's & Co 1963 (centre pencil) and 'R Wilson' (bottom right); David Fraser attributed this to Joseph Wright but does not know if it was bought in Sotheby's in 1963 or why the 'R. Wilson' is pencilled verso; height 390mm width 231mm; Pencil and ink wash drawing by Joseph Wright, inscribed on reverse 'Low End of Derwentwater from Crow Park'

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Title: Landscape Exhibition
Venue: Derby Museum and Art Gallery
Dates: from 21/05/1994 to 26/06/1994
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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Joseph Wright of Derby (Artist)
Display Date: British, 1734 - 1797
Nationality: British
Biography: Artist.

Low End of Derwentwater from Crow Park

Date: c. 1794

Medium: Ink wash over pencil on paper.

Object Type:	drawing
Dimensions:	Support: 390 × 231 mm (15 3/8 × 9 1/8 in.)
Description:	Low End of Derwent water from Crow Park; Wright visited the Lake District in 1794. He described the scenes in a letter home to his family 'they are to the eye what Handel's choruses are to the ear'. The pencil note at one time attributing the drawing to Richard Wilson is not uncommon, Wilson and Wright were acquainted and several of Wright's later landscapes owe much to Wilson in terms of style and composition. Schematic Landscape Drawings In the past, doubt has been cast on the attribution to Wright of the following group of schematic landscape drawings. Recent evidence, however, suggests otherwise. They are of the same style and manner as 'Landscape with Villa Cicerone' (cat.103) which relates to a previously unknown Wright landscape that appeared on the London Art Market in 1993 (attribution not verified by present author). Likewise the 'Ullswater' drawing (cat.237) relates to Wright's late oil painting. 'Ullswater' , 1797, and so is likely to be a preliminary study, (the inscription by his friend Holland adds further weight to this possibility). The 'Lancaster Castle' drawing (cat.233), is on paper with a 1794 watermark; the year Wright visited the Lake District. All the drawings contain numerous notes relating to colour tone and atmosphere which appear to be in Wright's handwriting - although the possibility that Wright annotated studies by his pupils or his colleagues that accompanied him to the Lake District also has to be considered.
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Item Ref:	1984-346