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Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

40.875 x 50.50 in. (103.8 x 128.4 cm.)

Description:

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Exhibited:

Winchester, Winchester College; Southampton, Southampton Art Gallery, Pictures from Hampshire Houses, 2 July-17 August 1955, no. 80. London, Tate Gallery; and Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734-1797, 11 April-21 June 1958, no. 20. London, Tate Gallery, The Romantic Movement, 10 July-27 September 1959, no. 379.

Literature:

Wright's Account Book, unpublished manuscript, Derby Public Library, as 'A distant view of Vesuvius from the shore of Posillipo bigger than 1/2 length. to Mr Edward Mundy', among pictures of the late 1780s. W. Bemrose, The Life and Works of Joseph Wright A.R.A., commonly called 'Wright of Derby', London, 1885, p. 123. B. Nicolson, Joseph Wright of Derby, Painter of Light, London and New York, 1968, I, pp. 78-79, 84, 88, 92, 97, 254, 283, no. 267, fig. 99, appendix B, no. 30; II, pl. 291.

Provenance:

Acquired from the artist by Edward Mundy (1750-1822), circa 1789, and by descent at Markeaton Hall, Derby, and elsewhere, through Major Peter Miller Mundy, until sold to the present owner through Agnew's, London, in 1992.