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The Hon. Richard Fitzwilliam, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion

Wright, Joseph (Wright of Derby) (painter)

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Title/s

The Hon. Richard Fitzwilliam, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion

Maker/s

Wright, Joseph (Wright of Derby) (painter) [ULAN info: British artist, 1734-1797]

Category

painting

Name

painting

School/Style

British

Technique Description

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 74.9 cm
width: 62.2 cm

Date

1764

Provenance

given: Fitzwilliam Hallifax, Robert 1819 (Filtered for: Paintings, Drawings and Prints)

Samuel Hallifax, D.D., Bishop of St Asaph, his father

Documentation

1. Earp, F.R. (1902) A Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (Cambs.) [page: 218,220]
   [comments: Reproduced.]
2. (1912) The Principal Pictures in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, London? [page: 215]
   [comments: Reproduced.]
3. (1929) The Principal Pictures in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (1929), London? [page: 247]
   [comments: Reproduced.]
4. Goodison, J.W. (1967) [Unknown; Illustrated London News; 1960], London [page: 114]
   Source title: Illustrated London News (1960)
   [comments: reproduced]
5. Goodison, J.W. (1967) [Unknown; Illustrated London News; 1960], London [page: 452]
   Source title: Illustrated London News (1960)
   [comments: reproduced]
6. Goodison, J.W. (1955) Catalogue of Cambridge Portraits I The University Collection, Cambridge (Cambs.): Cambridge University Press
   [comments: pl. XV]
7. Winter, Carl (1958) The Fitzwilliam Museum, An Illustrated Survey, London: Trianon Press
   [comments: frontispiece]
8. Nicolson, Ben (1968) Joseph Wright of Derby,
   [comments: Pl. 49.]
9. Goodison, J.W. (1977) Catalogue of Paintings in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Vol. III, British School, Cambridge (Cambs.): Cambridge University Press [page: 292-293]
   [comments: Pl. 20.]
10. (1988) The Dutch Connection: The Founding of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (Cambs.): The Fitzwilliam Museum [page: 25]
    [comments: Reproduced in colour, p. 17, and black and white, p. 25.]

Accession Number

1 (Paintings, Drawings and Prints)
(Reference Number: 4038; Input Date: 2000-04-17 / Last Edit: 2011-07-22)

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