Virgil's Tomb by Moonlight(Joseph Wright of Derby)
Listed in Wright’s account book as ‘Virgil’s Tomb £63’ among pictures of c. 1778-9; Mrs C.E. Arkwright, by 1934; thence by descent.
B. Nicholson, ‘Joseph Wright of Derby; Painter of Light’, London 1968, Vol. 1, pp83-4 & p258, no. 287, Vol. 2, p147, pl232; L. Bertelsen, ‘David Garrick and English Painting, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. II, No. 3, 1978, pp320-4; J.B. Trapp, ‘The Grave of Virgil’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. XLVII, 1984, p26; J.B. Trapp, ‘Virgil and the Monuments’, Proceedings of the Virgil Society, Vol. 18, 1986, pp1-17.
London, Royal Academy, 1779, no. 359; Derby, Corporation Art Gallery, ‘Wright of Derby Bicentenary Exhibition’, 1934, no. 37; London, Tate Gallery, and Liverpool Walker Art Gallery, Arts Coucil of Great Britain, ‘Joseph Wright of Derby’, 1958, no.