Skip to splash images
Yale Center for British Art Home Page
<< YCBA Home
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
<< YCBA Home
Welcome to YCBA Collections Online
The museum is reopening to the public in March 2025.
    Search Options:
Search in
Simple Search
All Fields
Title
Creator
Subject Terms
Call Number
Search Provenance
Fielded
search for
Search
YCBA Collections Search
Toggle facets
Refine your search
Collection
Paintings and Sculpture
1
Creator
Wright, Joseph, 1734–1797
1
Date
1740
7
1781
7
1780
6
1782
6
1783
6
1745
4
1779
4
1789
4
1803
4
1749
3
1764
3
1800
3
1755
2
1771
2
1773
2
1790
2
1791
2
1793
2
1794
2
1796
2
1804
2
1812
2
1815
2
1820
2
1830
2
1842
2
1865
2
1870
2
1500
1
1639
1
1658
1
1684
1
1700
1
1735
1
1743
1
1747
1
1748
1
1750
1
1756
1
1758
1
1761
1
1762
1
1765
1
1766
1
1767
1
1769
1
1770
1
1772
1
1775
1
1776
1
1777
[remove]
1
1778
1
1784
1
1785
1
1786
1
1787
1
1788
1
1792
1
1795
1
1798
1
1799
1
1802
1
1805
1
1806
1
1810
1
1813
1
1817
1
1822
1
1824
1
1826
1
1828
1
1829
1
1831
1
1834
1
1836
1
1838
1
1839
1
1840
1
1841
1
1849
1
1850
1
1853
1
1857
1
1859
1
1868
1
1869
1
1873
1
1885
1
1895
1
1905
1
1912
1
1917
1
1921
1
On-site Access
Not on view
1
Image Use
Free to Use
[remove]
1
Image Available
Available
1
Classification
Paintings
1
Creator Gender
male
1
Period
18th century
1
Materials & Techniques
painting (technique)
1
Height [cm]
Height [cm] range begin
–
Height [cm] range end
Current results range from
64
to
83
Width [cm]
Width [cm] range begin
–
Width [cm] range end
Current results range from
76
to
95
Work Type
painting
1
Genre
genre subject
1
landscape
1
Subject Terms
cliff
1
clouds
1
genre subject
1
hills
1
horse (animal)
1
landscape
1
light
1
man
1
moon
1
night
1
reflection
1
river
1
waterfall
1
Associated Places
Derbyshire
1
Derwent
1
England
1
Matlock
1
United Kingdom
1
Exhibition History
Art in Focus : Joseph Wright and the Spectacle of Science (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-03-30 - 2007-06-11)
1
Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25)
1
Gentle, Rural and Sublime - English Landscape Paintings and Watercolors, 1750-1850 (Denver Art Museum, 1993-12-11 - 1994-02-06)
1
Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20)
1
Rachel Rose (Gladstone Gallery, 2022-01-14 - 2022-03-01)
1
The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26)
1
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998-05-01 - 1998-07-05)
1
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of South Australia, 1998-09-16 - 1998-11-15)
1
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Queensland Art Gallery, 1998-07-15 - 1998-09-06)
1
Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
1
Search Constraints
Start Over
You searched for:
Date
1777
Remove constraint Date: 1777
Height [cm]
64
Remove constraint Height [cm]: 64
Image Use
Free to Use
Remove constraint Image Use: Free to Use
1
entry found
Sort by collection
collection
relevance
artist (A-Z)
date
title (A-Z)
Number of results to display per page
100 per page
100
per page
50
per page
15
per page
View results as:
List
Masonry
Search Results
1
Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Matlock Tor by Moonlight
between 1777 and 1780
Not on view