Date: 1750 or 1751
Medium: Pen and ink and ink wash on tan washed, laid paper.
Exhibitions:
- Title: Wright of Derby: The Bi-centenary Exhibition of Paintings by Joseph Wright
Venue: Derby Corporation Art Gallery
Dates: from 03/09/1934 to 18/11/1934 - Title: Wright of Derby
Venue: Tate Gallery, London
Dates: from to - 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: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734-1797: Bicentenary Exhibition
Venue: Wallis, Jane
Dates: from 21/06/1997 to 28/09/1997 - Title: Museum Menagerie
Venue: Derby Museum and Art Gallery
Dates: from 11/02/2017 to 19/02/2017 - Title: Joseph Wright of Derby: Life on Paper
Venue: Derby Museum and Art Gallery
Dates: from 23/05/2025 to 07/09/2025
Publications
- 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.
Author: Wallis, Jane
Published Place: Derby
Published Year: 1997 - Title: Allan Ramsay: A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings
Author: Alastair Smart
Published Place: New Haven and London
Published Year: 1999
Related People
John Prideaux Basset (Content)
Display Date: British, 1740 - 1756
Nationality: British
Biography: Son of John Pendarves Basset (1713–1739) of Tehidy Park, Cornwall and Anne Prideaux (1718–1782), daughter of Anne Hawkins and Sir Edmund Prideaux, fifth Baronet of Netherton. Basset, whose father died before his birth, came from one of the wealthiest families in Cornwall, with a fortune derived from minerals and tin mines. It is therefore unsurprising that he is named among the subscribers to William Borlase’s Observations on the Antiquities Historical and Monumental, of the County of Cornwall, published in 1754, where he is listed as subscribing to no less than twenty copies. He died at the age of sixteen, when a pupil at Eton College. An elaborate funeral procession was arranged for the journey by foot from Slough to his place of rest in the family vault at Illogan, Cornwall. [Source: Emily Burns, entry for Art and the Country House online catalogue, published by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Accessed on 10 July 2024]
Joseph Wright of Derby (Artist)
Display Date: British, 1734 - 1797
Nationality: British
Biography: Artist.
John Faber Junior (After)
Display Date: Dutch, died 1756
Nationality: Dutch
Biography: Engraver; painter of portrait miniatures.
Allan Ramsay (After)
Display Date: British; Scottish, 1713 - 1784
Nationality: British; Scottish
Biography: Painter.