Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd

  • Pencil and black chalk
  • 12 ½ × 16 ½ inches · 308 × 420 mm
  • Signed and dated: J. Wright delin 1775 (lower left), also inscribed by John Holland of Ford, Wright’s executor: Mount Vesuvius/Drawing was made by Wright of Derby when in Italy in 1775.

Collections

  • Probably in Wright’s studio at his death, inscribed by his executor John Holland of Ford, who probably passed it to one of Wright’s friends;
  • Sir Gilbert Inglefield, by 1968;
  • Private collection, 2006.

Literature

  • B. Nicolson, Joseph Wright of Derby: Painter of Light, London, 1968, I, p.76 and 2, p. 101, pl. 165. 

Private collection, USA