- Title:
- Cottage on Fire at Night
- Former Title(s):
- A village on fire [1794, Royal Academy of Arts, London, exhibition catalogue]
- Date:
- between 1785 and 1793
- Materials & Techniques:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 22 1/4 × 31 1/2 inches (56.5 × 80 cm), Frame: 29 1/4 × 38 1/2 inches (74.3 × 97.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated, lower right: "J. Wright. | 17[??]"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.714
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.714FR
- Subject Terms:
- burning | castle | cottage | disaster | evening | fence | figures | fire | flames | landscape | landscape | light | men | moon | moonlight | night | river | water
- Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1171
- Export:
- XML
- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
Art in Focus : The British Castle - A Symbol in Stone (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-04-07 - 2017-08-06) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Art in Focus : Joseph Wright and the Spectacle of Science (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-03-30 - 2007-06-11) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Sensation and Sensibility: Viewing Gainsborough's " Cottage Door " (The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 2006-02-11 - 2006-05-14) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Sensation and Sensibility: Viewing Gainsborough's " Cottage Door " (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-10-06 - 2005-12-31) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (Ferrara Galleries of Modern & Contemporary Art, 2001-02-25 - 2001-05-20) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (The Grand Rapids Art Museum, 1999-10-22 - 2000-01-02) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1998-02-08 - 1998-04-26) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Canaletto to Constable : paintings of town and country from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Conn., 1998, pp. 15, 87, pl. 31, ND1354.4 Y25 1998 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Christie's sale catalogue : Important English pictures : 17 July 1987, Christie's, lot 35, Auction Catalogues (YCBA)
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) [YCBA]
Matthew Craske, Joseph Wright of Derby : Painter of darkness, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, pp. 236-237, fig. 159, NJ18.W95 C72 2020+ (YCBA) [YCBA]
Stephen Daniels, Joseph Wright, Tate Publishing, London, 1999, p.73, NJ18 W95 D25 1999 (YCBA) [YCBA]
David Fraser, Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797), Derby Museums & Art Gallery, Derby, 1979, p.11, NJ18 W95 F72 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Joseph Wright of Derby : a selection of paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon. [Exhibition] November 22, 1969 to May 1, 1970, , National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1969, p.37, fig.19, NJ18 W95 U5 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Stephen Leach, Joseph Wright and the final farewell, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2023, p.181, fig.13.1, NJ18 W95 L43 2023 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, pp. 47-8 (v.1), no. 174, N5220.M45 R69 1964 (YCBA) [YCBA]
The British Castle : A Symbol in Stone, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2017, p. 34, cat. 30, V2722 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Jane Wallis, Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734-1797, an introduction to the work of Joseph Wright of Derby with a catalogue of drawings held by Derby Museum and Art Gallery; published on the occasion of an exhibition commemorating the bicentenary of the artist's death, 21 June-28 September, 1997, Derby... , Derby Museums & Art Gallery, Derby, 1997, p.46, NJ18 W95 +W25 1997 Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]
Yale University Art Gallery, Painting in England, 1700-1850, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon : [exhibition at] Yale University Art Gallery, April 15-June 20, 1965, , vol. 1, W. Clowes and sons, New Haven, 1965, p. 63 (v.1), no. 233, ND466 Y35 (YCBA) [YCBA]