Two Boys Blowing a Bladder by Candle-light
Medium
Aquatint printed in red and brown inks
Dimensions
plate: 11 1/4 x 8 3/8 in. (28.6 x 21.3 cm) sheet: 11 1/2 x 8 11/16 in. (29.2 x 22 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1968
Accession Number
68.589a
Tags
About the Artist
Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby)|Peter Perez Burdett · 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...