Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Title:
Matlock Dale, looking toward Black Rock Escarpment
Date:
between 1780 and 1785
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
23 x 30 inches (58.4 x 76.2 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.718
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
hills | woods | water | trees | landscape | village | cliffs | river | road
Associated Places:
Europe | England | Matlock | United Kingdom | Derwent | Derbyshire
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1998-02-08 - 1998-04-26)Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (The Grand Rapids Art Museum, 1999-10-22 - 2000-01-02)Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (Ferrara Galleries of Modern & Contemporary Art, 2001-02-25 - 2001-05-20)Joseph Wright of Derby (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1990-09-06 - 1990-12-02)Joseph Wright of Derby (Tate Britain, 1990-02-07 - 1990-04-22)Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27)
Publications:
David Ainley, Blinded by Spectacle, Disregard for Human Labour in a Landscape of Joseph Wright of Derby, and a Painter's Respnse folloiwng modernism , Digital and Material Arts Research Centre, University of Derby, January 12, 2012, pp. 2-3, Available online http://hdl.handle.net/10545/621637Canaletto to Constable : paintings of town and country from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Conn., 1998, pp. 15, 77, pl. 26, ND1354.4 Y25 1998 (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 262-263, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)Judy Egerton, Wright of Derby, Tate Publishing, London, 1990, p. 194, no. 123, NJ18 W95 +E54 1990 Oversize (YCBA)Catherine M. Gordon, British paintings Hogarth to Turner, Frederick Warne, London, 1981, p. 78, ND466 G67 (YCBA)Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, pp. 54, 160, no. IV.2, pl. 43, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA)