Three Persons Viewing the Gladiator by Candlelight
Medium
Mezzotint; third state of three (Clayton)
Dimensions
plate: 18 15/16 x 21 7/8 in. (48.1 x 55.6 cm) sheet: 19 1/4 x 22 5/16 in. (48.9 x 56.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
Accession Number
53.600.564
About the Artist
Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby)|William Pether|William Pether · 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...