- Title:
- Celadon and Amelia
- Date:
- 1766
- Materials & Techniques:
- Line engraving and etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 18 1/4 x 22 3/8 inches (46.4 x 56.8 cm), Plate: 17 1/2 x 21 5/8 inches (44.5 x 54.9 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower right: "Woollett"; inscribed on verso in graphite, center left: "F/T/ - "; lower left: "IR-784/455 | No. 114.2 | no/ 35"
Lettered lower left: "R.Wilson pinxit Londini."; lower left: "The tempest caught them on the tender walk, | _____________ from his void embrace, - | Mysterious Heaven! that moment to the ground, | A blacken'd corse, was struck the beauteous maid."; lower center: "CELADON and AMELIA | from an original picture, in the Collection of Wm. Lock Esqr. | Publifh'd June 10th. 1766 as the Act directs, by Wm. Woollett in Green Street, Leicefter Fields, & Ryland & Bryer at the King's Arms in Cornhill, London."; lower right: "But who can paint the lover, as he stood, | Pierc'd by severe amazement, hating life, | Speechless, and fix'd in all the death of woe! | Thompson's Summer, p. 1191. 1214."; lower right: "Browne Aqua forti fecit. Woollett Sculpt."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1984.21.455
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- bridge (built work) | castles | cities | clouds | hills | lightning | literary theme | rivers | ruins | science | sheep | shepherds | storms | villas
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:20857
- Export:
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Matthew Craske, Joseph Wright of Derby : Painter of darkness, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, p. 291, fig. 189, NJ18.W95 C72 2020+ (YCBA) [YCBA]
Martin Postle, Richard Wilson and the transformation of European landscape painting, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2014, pp. 132, 133, 284, 286, Cat. No. 101, fig. 110, NJ18.W72 R53 2014 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]