- Title:
The Prisoner
- Former Title(s):
Small Prison Scene
Prison Scene
- Date:
- 1787 to 1790
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- Support (PTG): 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
- Export:
- XML
- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
Captive Bodies: British Prisons, 1750-1900 (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-08-27 - 2018-12-17)
Joseph Wright of Derby (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1990-09-06 - 1990-12-02)
Joseph Wright of Derby (Musée du Louvre, 1990-05-17 - 1990-07-23)
Joseph Wright of Derby (Tate Britain, 1990-02-07 - 1990-04-22)
Malcolm Cormack, A 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)
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)
Judy Egerton, Wright of Derby, Tate Publishing, London, 1990, p. 125, no. 64, NJ18 W95 +E54 1990 Oversize (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)