Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797, British, active in Italy (1773–75)
Title:
Dovedale
Date:
1786
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
25 1/4 × 33 1/4 inches (64.1 × 84.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated, lower right on further bank right of tree root: "I.W. Pinxit 1786"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.722
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
rowboat | trees | man | woods | swans | river | cliffs | riverbank | swans | waterfall | landscape | caps (headgear) | fishing | rocks (landforms)
Associated Places:
England | United Kingdom | North Yorkshire | Peak District National Park | Dove
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Rachel Rose (Gladstone Gallery, 2022-01-14 - 2022-03-01)Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25)Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27)
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 264-265, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, p. 161, no. IV.3, pl. 135, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA)Duncan Robinson, Fairest isle : the appreciation of British scenery, 1750-1850, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1989, p. 15, no. 124, ND1354.4 F35 (YCBA)