Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Title:
Portrait of a Man
Date:
ca. 1768
Materials & Techniques:
Black chalk, white chalk and brown chalk on medium, slightly textured, white laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches (36.8 x 28.6 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.6320
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
portrait | genre subject | figure study | turban | hat | collar | ruff | hand | man
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Joseph Wright of Derby in Liverpool (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-05-22 - 2008-08-30)An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27)Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-12-05 - 1980-02-17)
Publications:
Elizabeth E. Barker, Joseph Wright of Derby in Liverpool, Yale University Press, Liverpool New Haven, 2007, pp. 48, 177-8, no. 51, fig. 42, NJ18 W95 B36 2007 + (YCBA)John Baskett, Paul Mellon's Legacy: a Passion for British Art: Masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, pp. 259-260, no. 40, pl. 40, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Matthew Craske, Joseph Wright of Derby : Painter of darkness, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 2020, pp. 204-205, fig. 135, NJ18.W95 C72 2020+ (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. 1, 13, cat. 1, NJ18 W95 U5 (YCBA)Stephen Leach, The adventures and speculations of the ingenious Peter Perez Burdett, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2023, p. 62, fig. 6.1, NJ18 B8953 L43 2023 (YCBA)Benedict Nicolson, Joseph Wright of Derby : Painter of Light, Paul Mellon Foundation for British Art, London, New York, 1968, Vol. I, p. 38, n. 1, p. 229; Vol. II, pl. 69, pl. 69, NJ18 W95 +N53 Oversize (YCBA)Patrick Noon, English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures, Yale Center for British Art, 1979, pp. 67-68, no. 72, NC772 N66+ (Wall Shelf) (YCBA)Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 2, no. 40, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)David H. Solkin, Painting for money, the visual arts and the public sphere in eighteenth-century England , The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 1993, p. 242, N5205.7 G7 S65 1993 (YCBA)Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 27, no. 12, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)