Matlock Tor by Moonlight

between 1778 and 1780

Joseph Wright of Derby English, 1734-1797

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British, Level 3, South Wing

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Title Matlock Tor by Moonlight

Artwork Date between 1778 and 1780

Artist Joseph Wright of Derby

Life Dates 1734-1797

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. English

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 25 1/4 × 30 1/8 inches (64.1 × 76.5 cm) Framed: 31 1/2 × 36 3/4 × 1 3/4 inches (80 × 93.3 × 4.4 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 48.4

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Signed Signed, at bottom: IW [artist's monogram]

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Provenance

Frederick C. Arkwright (Willersley, England)

by descent to great grandson of Richard Arkwright (Cromford, Derby, England)

by 1948, (Durlacher Brothers, New York, New York, USA)

1948-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Exh. cat., Mr. Robin's Rooms. London, 1785, no. XII.

Paintings by Joseph Wright. Exh. cat., Corporation Art Gallery. Derby, 1883, no. 8 [as "Landscape - Moonlight"; (Dovedale) collection, F. C. Arkwright.]

Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters and by Deceased Masters of the British School. Exh. cat., Royal Academy. London, 1886, no. 12.

Buckley, C. "An English Landscape by Joseph Wright of Derby." Art Quarterly 18, no. 3 (1955): pp. 265-271.

"Joseph Wright of Derby."Exh. cat., Smith College Museum of Art. Northhampton, 1955, no. 10.

Joseph Wright of Derby. Exh. cat., Durlacher Brothers Gallery. New York, 1960, no. 18. [dated 1780.]

Rosenblum, R. "Wright of Derby: 'Gothick' Realist.'" Art News 59, no. 1 (1960): pp. 26, 50 (fig. 7).

Romantic Painting, Romantic Prints. Exh. cat., Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts. Columbus, 1963, no. 26.

Connolly, Cyril. "English Conquest in the Old Dominion." Art News 62, no. 4 (1963): p. 33.

The Romantic Era 1750-1850. Exh. cat., John Herron Museum of Art. Indianapolis, 1965, cat. 20 (ill.).

Nicolson, B. Joseph Wright of Derby: Painter of Light. London, 1968, vol. 1, pp. 88, 90, 264, no. 309, vol. 2, p. 135, pl. 218.

Masterpieces from The Detroit Insitute of Arts. Exh. cat., Bunkamura Museum of Art, et al. Tokyo, 1989, pp. 77, 214-215, cat. 45 (ill.).

Wissman, F.W. European Vistas: Cultural Landscapes. Detroit, 2000, pp. 62-64 (ill.).

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Joseph Wright of Derby, Matlock Tor by Moonlight, between 1778 and 1780, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund, 48.4.