Umbrella Pines and Buildings (Smaller Italian Sketchbook, leaf 26 recto)

Umbrella Pines and Buildings (Smaller Italian Sketchbook, leaf 26 recto) by Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby)

Medium

Graphite and brush yellow wash or watercolor

Dimensions

Sheet: 9 3/16 x 6 3/4 in. (23.4 x 17.1 cm)

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Rogers Fund, 1957

Accession Number

57.102.1(26)

Tags

Trees

About the Artist

Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby) · 17341797

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...

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