Smaller Italian Sketchbook (containing 43 drawings on 44 leaves)
Medium
Graphite, pen and ink, gray wash and yellow wash or watercolor
Dimensions
Overall: 9 7/16 x 7 1/16 x 1/2 in. (24 x 18 x 1.3 cm) Sheet: 9 3/16 x 6 3/4 in. (23.4 x 17.1 cm)
Classification
Sketchbooks
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1957
Accession Number
57.102.1(1–44)
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About the Artist
Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby) · 1734–1797
Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797) was an English painter celebrated for his dramatic use of candlelight and artificial illumination, which earned him a unique position in eighteenth-century British art as the painter of the Industrial Revolution and the Enlightenment. Born in Derby in the English Midlands, he studied in London under Thomas Hudson, a leading portrait painter, before returning to D...