Skip to splash images
Yale Center for British Art Home Page
<< YCBA Home
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
<< YCBA Home
Welcome to YCBA Collections Online
The museum is closed for building conservation. We regret that we are unable to accept orders for new collections photography until January 2025.
    Search Options:
Search in
Simple Search
All Fields
Title
Creator
Subject Terms
Call Number
Search Provenance
Fielded
search for
Search
YCBA Collections Search
Toggle facets
Refine your search
Collection
Paintings and Sculpture
1
Creator
Wright, Joseph, 1734–1797
1
Date
1777
1
On-site Access
Not on view
1
Image Use
Free to Use
1
Image Available
Available
1
Classification
Paintings
1
Creator Gender
male
1
Period
18th century
[remove]
1
Materials & Techniques
painting (technique)
1
Height [cm]
Height [cm] range begin
–
Height [cm] range end
Current results range from
64
to
83
Width [cm]
Width [cm] range begin
–
Width [cm] range end
Current results range from
76
to
95
Work Type
painting
1
Genre
genre subject
1
landscape
1
Subject Terms
cliff
1
clouds
1
genre subject
1
hills
1
horse (animal)
1
landscape
1
light
1
man
1
moon
1
night
1
reflection
1
river
1
waterfall
1
Associated Places
Derbyshire
1
Derwent
1
England
1
Matlock
[remove]
1
United Kingdom
1
Exhibition History
Art in Focus : Joseph Wright and the Spectacle of Science (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-03-30 - 2007-06-11)
1
Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25)
1
Gentle, Rural and Sublime - English Landscape Paintings and Watercolors, 1750-1850 (Denver Art Museum, 1993-12-11 - 1994-02-06)
1
Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20)
1
Rachel Rose (Gladstone Gallery, 2022-01-14 - 2022-03-01)
1
The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26)
1
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1998-05-01 - 1998-07-05)
1
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Art Gallery of South Australia, 1998-09-16 - 1998-11-15)
1
This Other Eden : British Paintings from the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale (Queensland Art Gallery, 1998-07-15 - 1998-09-06)
1
Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
1
Search Constraints
Start Over
You searched for:
Period
18th century
Remove constraint Period: 18th century
Associated Places
Matlock
Remove constraint Associated Places: Matlock
Width [cm]
95
Remove constraint Width [cm]: 95
1
entry found
Sort by collection
collection
relevance
artist (A-Z)
date
title (A-Z)
Number of results to display per page
100 per page
100
per page
50
per page
15
per page
View results as:
List
Masonry
Search Results
1
Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797
Matlock Tor by Moonlight
between 1777 and 1780
Not on view