Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Title:
Derwent Water, with Skiddaw in the distance
Date:
between 1795 and 1796
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
22 1/4 x 31 1/2 inches (56.5 x 80 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.720
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
landscape | boat | figures | road | path | park (grounds) | man | shore (landform) | island | mountain | cliffs | boulders | clouds | rocks (landforms)
Associated Places:
United Kingdom | Skiddaw | Lake District | Derwent Water | Borrowdale | Cumbria | England | Europe
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Rachel Rose (Gladstone Gallery, 2022-01-14 - 2022-03-01)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)English Romanticism (Center Gallery, Bucknell University, 1990-02-24 - 1990-04-08)Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25)The Beautiful, The Sublime, and The Picturesque (Washington University Gallery of Art, 1984-02-19 - 1984-04-08)Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27)
Publications:
Rosemary Ashton, The life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge : a critical biography, Blackwells Ltd., Cambridge, MA, 1997, p. 320, pl. 11, PR4483 .A85 1997 (YCBA)Canaletto 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, 97, pl. 36, ND1354.4 Y25 1998 (YCBA)Christie's sale catalogue : Pictures by old masters the property of Miss Hoskins : 25 March 1905, Christie's, March 25, 1905, p. 5, lot 13, Fiche B51 (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 266-267, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)Matthew Craske, Joseph Wright of Derby : Painter of darkness, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 2020, p. 212, fig. 140, NJ18.W95 C72 2020+ (YCBA)Silvano D'Alto, Paesaggio e società in Inghilterra, fra città e campagna, Servizio Editoriale Universitario, Pisa, 2003, pp. 146-147, 233, fig. 23, N8213 .D34 2003Catherine 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. 12, 116, no. I.7, pl. 8, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA)Joseph Wright of Derby : a selection of paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon. [Exhibition] November 22, 1969 to May 1, 1970, , National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1969, pp. 18, 38, no. 20, NJ18 W95 U5 (YCBA)Duncan Robinson, Fairest isle : the appreciation of British scenery, 1750-1850, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1989, p. 7, no. 46, ND1354.4 F35 (YCBA)Turner and Girtin's picturesque views sixty years since. With thirty engravings of the olden time, Joseph Hogarth, London, pp. 13-17, NJ18 T85 M55+ (YCBA)Washington University Gallery of Art, The beautiful, the sublime, and the picturesque : British influences on American landscape painting, St. Louis, 1984, pp. 22, 23, 65, no. 37, ND1351 .B42 (LC) (YCBA)Dorothy Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth's illustrated Lakeland journals, Collins, London, 1987, p. 167, PR5849 .A84 1987 (YCBA)Jonathan Wordsworth, British romantic art, Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, 1990, p. 37, NX543 B74 1990 OVERSIZE (YCBA)