Painting of a waterfall with a bridge beyond. Sunlight peeps through the tree canopy above. The viewpoint is low and looks across the surface of a river towards the waterfall, set within a narrow rocky gorge. Pebbles and rocks are visible benath the water's surface. The canvas is inscribed 'I W Pinxt./ 1795', on a rock, in the lower right hand corner. Painted by Joseph Wright of Derby (1734 - 1797). Oil on canvas in gilded frame.
Painting of a waterfall with a bridge beyond. Sunlight peeps through the tree canopy above. The viewpoint is low and looks across the surface of a river towards the waterfall, set within a narrow rocky gorge. Pebbles and rocks are visible benath the water's surface. The canvas is inscribed 'I W Pinxt./ 1795', on a rock, in the lower right hand corner. Painted by Joseph Wright of Derby (1734 - 1797). Oil on canvas in gilded frame.
Painting of a waterfall with a bridge beyond. Sunlight peeps through the tree canopy above. The viewpoint is low and looks across the surface of a river towards the waterfall, set within a narrow rocky gorge. Pebbles and rocks are visible benath the water's surface. The canvas is inscribed 'I W Pinxt./ 1795', on a rock, in the lower right hand corner. Painted by Joseph Wright of Derby (1734 - 1797). Oil on canvas in gilded frame.

Exhibitions:

  • Title: Art & Industrial Exhibition
    Venue: CORNEXCHANGE,DERBY
    Dates: from 25/09/1866 to
  • Title: Wright of Derby: The Bi-centenary Exhibition of Paintings by Joseph Wright
    Dates: from 03/09/1934 to 18/11/1934
  • Title: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734 - 1797
    Venue: Derby Museum and Art Gallery
    Dates: from 04/10/1947 to 29/10/1947
  • Title: Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734 - 1797
    Dates: from 05/11/1947 to 30/11/1947
  • Title: Pictures by Joseph Wright
    Dates: from 17/07/1950 to 27/07/1950
  • Title: Joseph Wright of Derby
    Venue: WALKERARTGALLERY
    Dates: from 11/04/1958 to 18/05/1958
  • Title: Joseph Wright of Derby
    Dates: from 31/05/1958 to 21/06/1958
  • Title: Romanticism - A New Feeling Towards Nature
    Dates: from to
  • Title: Joseph Wright of Derby
    Dates: from 21/04/1979 to 21/07/1979
  • Title: The Viewfinders (Lake District Landscapes)
    Dates: from 31/05/1980 to 27/07/1980
  • Title: The Discovery of the Lake District 1750 - 1810
    Dates: from 20/05/1982 to 31/10/1982
  • Title: The English Lake District
    Dates: from 19/09/1984 to 13/01/1985
  • Title: William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism
    Dates: from 27/10/1987 to 02/01/1988
  • Title: Wm. Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism
    Dates: from 27/01/1988 to 06/03/1988
  • Title: Wm. Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism
    Dates: from 06/04/1988 to 05/06/1988
  • Title: Wright of Derby
    Dates: from 07/02/1990 to 22/04/1990
  • Title: Wright of Derby
    Dates: from 17/05/1990 to 23/07/1990
  • Title: Wright of Derby
    Dates: from 06/09/1990 to 02/12/1990
  • Title: L'Invention du Sentiment
    Dates: from 03/04/2002 to 30/06/2002

Publications

  • Title: Joseph Wright of Derby
    Sub-Title: Painter of Light
    Volume: 1
    Published Place: London
    Published Year: 1968

Keywords

Waterfall, Sunlight, Woodland, Landscape

Related People

  • Wright, Joseph (Artist)

    Display Date: British, 1734 - 1797

    Nationality: British

    Biography: British artist.

Rydal Waterfall

Date: 1795

Medium: oil on canvas

Object Type:painting
Dimensions:Frame: 760 x 955 x 106 mm (29 15/16 x 37 5/8 x 4 3/16 in.) Support: 571 x 762 mm (22 1/2 x 30 in.)
Description:TEST Wright painted this Lake District beauty spot two years before his death. He wrote to his brother Richard "...having explored the most stupendous scenes I ever beheld... they are to the eye, what Handel's choruses are to the ear... to have done these tremendous scenes any justice, I should have visited them twenty years ago..."
Inscriptions:'I. W. Pinxt./ 1795' recto, lower right (on rock).
Provenance:Miss Dorothy Mary Rowena Cade, of Porth Curns; by whom donated to Derby Museums in 1939.
Viewing Status:Contact Us
Item Ref:1939-877
Item Ref:1939-877
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