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- Title:
The Prisoner
- Former Title(s):
Small Prison Scene
Prison Scene
- Date:
- 1787 to 1790
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 16 x 18 1/2 inches (40.6 x 47 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed, lower right: "I. W." [or J.W.]
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.715
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.715FR
- Subject Terms:
- arches | architectural subject | cell | correctional institution | dark | genre subject | prison | prisoner | punishment | sadness | vaulted ceilings | window
- Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1172
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Joseph Wright of Derby (Tate Britain, 1990-02-07 - 1990-04-22) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Elizabeth E. Barker, A very great and uncommon genius in a peculiar way : Joseph Wright of Derby and candlelight painting in 18th century Britain [PhD Dissertation, New York University], ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, , 2003, p. 274, NJ18 W95 B37 2003A (YCBA) [YCBA]
William Bemrose, The Life and Works of Joseph Wright, A.R.A., Commonly Called "Wright of Derby.", Bemrose & sons, London and Derby, 1885, p. 122, Folio A N 86 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Douglas Blau, Fictions : a selection of pictures from the 18th, 19th & 20th centuries, November 17-December 31, 1987, Kent Fine Art, New York, 1987, no. 98, N6407 B53 (LSF) [ORBIS]
Christie's sale catalogue : Important English pictures : 22 June 1979, Christie's, London, 22 June 1979, p. 71, lot 104, 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. 4-5, fig. 6, NJ18.W95 C72 2020+ (YCBA) [YCBA]
Stephen Daniels, Joseph Wright, Tate Publishing, London, 1999, pp. 25, 26, fig. 15, NJ18 W95 D25 1999 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Judy Egerton, Wright of Derby, Tate Publishing, London, 1990, p. 125, no. 64, NJ18 W95 +E54 1990 Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]
Exhibition Catalogue. 1789. 21st, Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, no. 21, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1789, p. 4, no. 67, N5054 A53 v. 1:2 nos 14-28 (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, pp. 17, 32, no. 14, NJ18 W95 U5 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Benedict Nicolson, Joseph Wright of Derby : Painter of Light, Paul Mellon Foundation for British Art, London, New York, 1968, p. 182 (v.2), pp. 62, 242 (v.1), no. 284 (v.2), no. 218 (v.1), NJ18 W95 +N53 Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]
Paul Mellon's Legacy, a passion for British art. [large print labels] , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 1, N5220 M552 +P381 2007, Mellon Shelf (YCBA) [YCBA]