Smaller Italian Sketchbook (containing 43 drawings on 44 leaves)
Medium
Graphite, pen and ink, gray wash and yellow wash or watercolor
Dimensions
Overall: 9 7/16 x 7 1/16 x 1/2 in. (24 x 18 x 1.3 cm) Sheet: 9 3/16 x 6 3/4 in. (23.4 x 17.1 cm)
Classification
Sketchbooks
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1957
Accession Number
57.102.1(1–44)
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby) · 1734–1797
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...