Title: Pictures Painted by Joseph Wright, of Derby
Venue: Mr Robins' Rooms, London
Dates: from 22/07/1785 to 22/07/1785
Title: Olympia Fine Art and Antiques Fair
Venue: Olympia, London
Dates: from 01/06/1984 to 09/06/1984
Title: Wright in Italy. Joseph Wright of Derby's Visit Abroad, 1773-5
Venue: Fraser, David
Dates: from 08/08/1987 to 20/09/1987
Title: Landscape Exhibition
Venue: Derby Museum and Art Gallery
Dates: from 21/05/1994 to 26/06/1994
Title: Der Mond/The Moon
Venue: Wallraff-Richartz-Museum, Köln
Dates: from 26/03/2009 to 16/08/2009
Title: The Moon: 'Houston, Tranquility Base Here. The Eagle Has Landed'
Venue: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Dates: from 26/09/2009 to 16/01/2010
Title: Joseph Wright and the Lure of Italy (The Grand Tour, Part 2)
Venue: Derby Museum and Art Gallery
Dates: from 18/03/2016 to 12/06/2016

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: Romanticism in the North - From Friedrich to Turner
Published Place: Groningen
Copyright: WBOOKS/Groninger Museum
Published Year: 2017

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

Virgil's Tomb, by Moonlight

Date: 1782

Medium: Oil on canvas.

Object Type:	Painting
Dimensions:	Frame: 1207 × 1496 × 70 mm (47 1/2 × 58 7/8 × 2 3/4 in.) Support: 1016 × 1270 mm (40 × 50 in.)
Inscriptions:	To recto, lower centre: 'I. W. 1782'.
Provenance:	Possibly in Wright's Account Book as 'A large picture of Virgil's Tomb, £63...December 1782'; ...; with Reverend Thomas Gisborne(?); ...; with Barton Blount Estates Company in 1968; ...; purchased from Margaret Ward by Derby Museums in 1981.
Viewing Status:	Contact Us
Item Ref:	1981-68