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: Pictures by Joseph Wright of Derby
Venue: Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield
Dates: from 17/07/1950 to 27/07/1950
Title: Joseph Wright of Derby
Venue: Norwich Castle Museum
Dates: from 03/01/1959 to 01/02/1959
Title: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734 - 1797
Venue: Derby Museum and Art Gallery
Dates: from to
Title: Wright of Derby
Venue: Tate Gallery, London
Dates: from to
Title: Landscape in Britain
Venue: Tate Gallery, London
Dates: from 20/11/1973 to 03/02/1974
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: Joseph Wright Drawings
Venue: Derby Museum and Art Gallery
Dates: from 01/06/2013 to 20/09/2013

Title: Wright of Derby
Author: Judy Egerton
Published Place: London
Copyright: The Tate Gallery
Published Year: 1990
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: Joseph Wright of Derby: Painter of Light
Sub-Title: Volume 1
Volume: 1
Author: Benedict Nicolson
Published Place: London
Copyright: Benedict Nicolson, 1968
Published Year: 1968
Title: Alexander and John Robert Cozens
Sub-Title: The Poetry of Landscape
Author: Kim Sloan
Published Place: New Haven and London
Published Year: 1986

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

Study of Dovedale, Derbyshire

Date: c. 1786

Medium: Ink wash over pencil on laid paper.

Object Type:	Drawing
Dimensions:	Support: 378 × 546 mm (14 7/8 × 21 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions:	Inscribed on verso (handwritten in ink): 'T G 1798'.
Provenance:	?With Wright's executor, John Holland of Ford Hall, Derbyshire, by whom given to Reverend Thomas Gisborne of Yoxall Lodge, Staffordshire, in 1798; with the Hon. Mrs Emily Wingfield Griffiths (previously the Hon. Mrs Emily Wingfield Gisborne) of Yoxall Lodge by 1883, by whom sold Winterton & Sons of Lichfield, 7-9 September 1921; purchased by E. Crosland of Derby, from whom purchased by Derby Museums in 1921.
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Item Ref:	1921-837/4