Smaller Italian Sketchbook (containing 43 drawings on 44 leaves) 1774–75 (?) Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby) British Wright traveled to Italy rather late in his career, arriving in Rome in 1774. The Met holds two sketchbooks from his Italian sojourn, this one and a larger example, both filled primarily with wash drawings of landscapes and Roman ruins. Although he had established his reputation as a painter of portraits and figural groups, upon his return to England, Wright increasingly turned to landscape as a Smaller Italian Sketchbook (containing 43 drawings on 44 leaves). Joseph W
Smaller Italian Sketchbook (containing 43 drawings on 44 leaves) 1774–75 (?) Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby) British Wright traveled to Italy rather late in his career, arriving in Rome in 1774. The Met holds two sketchbooks from his Italian sojourn, this one and a larger example, both filled primarily with wash drawings of landscapes and Roman ruins. Although he had established his reputation as a painter of portraits and figural groups, upon his return to England, Wright increasingly turned to landscape as a Smaller Italian Sketchbook (containing 43 drawings on 44 leaves). Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby) (British, Derby 1734–1797 Derby). 1774–75 (?). Graphite, pen and ink, gray wash and yellow wash or watercolor. Sketchbooks
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