- Title:
- The Dead Soldier
- Former Title(s):
- A dead soldier, his wife and child. Vide Langhorn's Poems [1789, Royal Academy of Arts, London, exhibition catalogue]
- Date:
- ca. 1789
- Materials & Techniques:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 40 × 50 inches (101.6 × 127 cm), Frame: 46 3/4 × 56 3/4 × 2 1/4 inches (118.7 × 144.1 × 5.7 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1974.3.25
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1974.3.25FR
- Subject Terms:
- battle | cannons (artillery) | child | costume | death | genre subject | landscape | mourning | sadness | smoke | soldier | tent | war | woman
- Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:184
- Export:
- XML
- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
Cost of Revolution: the Life and Death of an Irish Soldier (Museum of the American Revolution, 2019-09-26 - 2020-02-17) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
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Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 266-267, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Matthew Craske, Joseph Wright of Derby : Painter of darkness, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 2020, pp. 275-276, fig. 183, NJ18.W95 C72 2020+ (YCBA) [YCBA]
Frederick J. Cummings, Boothby, Rousseau, and the Romantic Malady, Burlington Magazine, vol. 110, London, 1968, p. 666, N1 B87+ 110 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Exhibition of the Royal Academy, Public Advertiser, London, April 28, 1789, p. 3, Online Resource (17th - 18th c Burney Coll) [ORBIS]
Exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1789 : the Twenty First, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1789, p. 9, No. 236, N5054 A53 14-28 (YCBA) [YCBA]
James Thomas Flexner, George Washington as an Art Collector, American Art Journal, vol. 4, New York, 1972, p. 26, N6505 A618 (HAAS) [ORBIS]
Martin Hopkinson, Paul Sandby and the Secrets of Aquatint, Print Quarterly, vol. 20, London, 2003, p. 381, NE1 P765 20 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734-1797, a loan exhibition : Durlacher Bros., March 1 through March 26, 1960. , Durlacher Brothers Gallery, London, 1960, p.9, 24, V 0629 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Simon Macdonald, To 'shew virtue and its own image' : William Hodges's "The Effects of Peace and the Consequences of War, 1794-1795", British Art Journal, vol. 9, London, 2008, pp. 60-1, N6761 B74+ 9 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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Benedict Nicolson, Joseph Wright of Derby : Painter of Light, Paul Mellon Foundation for British Art, London, New York, 1968, pp. 65, 66, 153, 247 (vol. 1); p.180 (vol.2), lot 85, pl. 281, NJ18 W95 +N53 Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]
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Putting the Poor in their Place : A Brief Guide : University Art Gallery, SUNY-Bingham, March 7 - April 20, 1986, Binghamton, 1986, ND466 P87 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Robert Rosenblum, Sources of Two Paintings by Joseph Wright of Derby, Journal of the Warburg and Courtald Institutes, vol. 25, London, 1962, pp. 135-6, pl. D, AS122 L8515 25 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Royal Academy, 1789. Original Remarks on the Exhibition, General Magazine and Impartial Review, London, May 1789, p. 209, Online Resource (British Periodicals) [ORBIS]
Solomon Charles Kaines Smith, Wright of Derby, F. A. Stokes, New York, 1922, p. 150, 236, NJ18 W95 S55 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Sotheby's sale catalogue : Fine Paintings, Old Master Drawings 17 December 1947, Sotheby's, London, December 17, 1947, p. 13, lot 105, Sotheby's Catalogues Film B12 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Ellis Waterhouse, Painting in Britain, 1530 to 1790, Yale University Press, New Haven London, 1994, pp. 209, 214, pl. 171b, ND464 W37 1994 (YCBA) [YCBA]