Joseph Of Derby Collection

Dovedale by Moonlight, 1784. Artist: Joseph Wright of Derby
Dovedale by Moonlight, 1784. Painting housed in the Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Derby. From The Connoisseur Volume LXXXVII, edited by C. Reginald Grundy. [The Connoisseur Ltd, London, 1931]

The Farriers Shop, December 1, 1771. Creator: William Pether
The Farriers Shop, December 1, 1771

A Blacksmiths Shop, August 25, 1771. Creator: Richard Earlom
A Blacksmiths Shop, August 25, 1771

An Academy by Lamplight, February 20, 1772. Creator: William Pether
An Academy by Lamplight, February 20, 1772

Two Boys Blowing a Bladder by Candle-light, 1773. 1773. Creator: Peter Perez Burdett
Two Boys Blowing a Bladder by Candle-light, 1773

Portrait of a Woman, ca. 1770. Creator: Joseph Wright of Derby
Portrait of a Woman, ca. 1770

Virgils Tomb by Moonlight, with Silius Italicus Declaiming, 1779. Creator: Joseph Wright of Derby
Virgils Tomb by Moonlight, with Silius Italicus Declaiming, 1779

The Corinthian Maid, 1782-1784, (1930). Creator: Joseph Wright of Derby
The Corinthian Maid, 1782-1784, (1930). The Ancient Greek potter Butades daughter, Kora of Sicyon (c650 BC), is believed to have drawn the charcoal silhouette of her sleeping lovers face on a wall

Self Portrait at the Age of about Fifty, c1782-1785, (1930). Creator: Joseph Wright of Derby
Self Portrait at the Age of about Fifty, c1782-1785, (1930). Self portrait by British painter Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797). Painting in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Landscape with a Rainbow Effect, 1794, (1930). Creator: Joseph Wright of Derby
Landscape with a Rainbow Effect, 1794, (1930). A bridge and surrounding countryside illuminated by an eerie light after a storm. Painting in the Derby Museum & Art Gallery

Miss Hannah Wright, c1780. Artist: Joseph Wright of Derby
Miss Hannah Wright, c1780. From The Connoisseur Volume LXXXVII, edited by C. Reginald Grundy. [The Connoisseur Ltd, London, 1931]

Benjamin Franklin, American scientist and politician, 1782 (1956). Franklin (1706-1790) was a member of the committee which drafted the Declaration of Independence in 1776

Richard Arkwright (1732-1792), British industrialist and inventor. Arkwright was the inventor of textile manufacturing machinery which included the first practical means of mechanical spinning using

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