LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

39.96 in. (101.50 cm.) (height) by 50.00 in. (127.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed with initials and dated lower right: I.W. 1779

Condition:

held in the original Joseph Wright of Derby frame

Literature:

B. Nicholson, Joseph Wright of Derby; Painter of Light, London 1968, Vol. 1, pp. 83-4 & p. 258, no. 287, Vol. 2, p. 147, pl. 232; L. Bertelsen, 'David Garrick and English Painting', Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 11, No. 3, 1978, pp. 320-4; J.B. Trapp, 'The Grave of Virgil', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. XLVII, 1984, p. 26; J.B. Trapp, 'Virgil and the Monuments', Proceedings of the Virgil Society, Vol. 18, 1986, pp. 1-17

Provenance:

Listed in Wright's account book as 'Virgil's Tomb £63' among pictures of c.1778-9; Mrs C.E. Arkwright, by 1934; thence by descent