Object number1966.23.1

Entrance to a Roman Ruin

Datec. 1774

Artist Joseph Wright of Derby (British, 1734 - 1797)

CultureBritish

MediumInk wash and graphite on cream laid paper

DimensionsSheet: 14 3/8 x 21 5/8 in. (36.51 x 54.93 cm)

Credit LinePurchase, Suzette Morton Davidson, class of 1934, Fund

On View

Not on view

Period18th c

Classification(s)

Drawings and Watercolors

SignedNot signed or dated

ProvenanceCollections: Mr. C. Daniell, 12 British Grove, Chiswick, London

Vassar Exhibitions

Mastering Light: From the Natural to the Artificial

To the Divine Shades: Inscribed Epitaphs from Ancient Rome from the Permanent Collection

Exhibition History"No Incidents but a Ghost and a Storm: European Prints and Drawings of the Romantic Period," Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, 20 September - 15 December 1996;

Poughkeepsie, NY, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, "Humanizing Landscapes: Geography, Culture and the Magoon Collection" 5 Oct. - 20 Dec. 2000. Cat. no.71

Poughkeepsie, New York, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, "Mastering Light: From the Natural to the Artificial," April 11 - June 29, 2014.

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