The Gulf of Salerno

1. Probably John Holland, Ford Hall, Derbyshire [a "Sun Set in the Bay of Salerno" listed in Wright's Account Book about 1783 as the companion to Bacon's Moonlight Vesuvius and "sold to my friend Holland"; see Judy Egerton, Wright of Derby, exhib. cat. Tate Gallery, Louvre, and Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1990, p. 180, under no. 109]. Private collection, England, by family descent to a collector in New York, c. 1992 [information kindly supplied by Piers Davies, Christie’s]; sold Christie's, New York, 24 January, 2003, no. 140 to Simon Dickinson, London; sold to the Art Institute.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Mr. Robin's Rooms, Convent Garden, Exhibition of Paintings by Joseph Wright of Derby, 1785, no. 16
• Chicago, BUILDING A COLLECTION: NEW ACQUISITIONS AND PROMISED GIFTS OF BRITISH ART, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, May 1–August 1, 2004, no. 5.

• Anonymous review, "Exhibition of Pictures by Mr. Wright of Derby," Morning Post and Daily Advertiser, April 20, 1785, p. 2.

Virgil's Tomb by Moonlight, with Silius Italicus Declaiming

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Portrait of a Woman

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Tree branches (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 30 recto)

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Carved panel and ornament (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 9 recto)

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Sketch of a female nude resembling the Medici Venus (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 19 recto)

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Sketch of a female nude resembling the Medici Venus (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 20 recto)

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Tile-roofed building with an arcade, part of the walls at Rome (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 31 recto)

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Landscape with umbrella pines and a distant mountain, near Rome (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 41 recto)

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