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Original works by Joseph Wright of Derby available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database NEW!
Self-Portrait in a Fur Cap, monochrome pastel, 1765/68
Derby Museum and Art Gallery, UK
27 works displayed online
Joseph Wright of Derby at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Illustration from Shakespeare's The Tempest
The Dead Soldier, 1789
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Firework Display at the Castel Sant' Angelo in Rome (La Girandola), 1779
The Iron Forge Viewed from Without, 1773
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
John Whetham of Kirklington, 1779
Penelope Unraveling Her Web, 1783
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Joseph Wright of Derby at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Lake Nemi, Sunset, 1790
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota 
Cottage on Fire, 1786-87
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Joseph Wright of Derby at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
6 works by Joseph Wright of Derby
Joseph Wright of Derby at the National Gallery, London, UK
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump
Mr and Mrs Thomas Coltman
The Royal Collection, London, UK
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Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Dovedale by Moonlight
Art Fund for UK Museums
9 works
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, New Brunswick
Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, California
Edward Becher Leacroft of Wirksworth, ca.1762-63
Denver Art Museum / Berger Collection, Colorado
Manchester City Art Gallery, UK
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
National Museums and Galleries of Wales
The Lake of Albano, 1790
National Museums Liverpool, UK
Richard Gildart
National Museums Liverpool, UK
The Annual Girandola
National Museums Liverpool, UK
Mrs Frances Hesketh
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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2 works by Joseph Wright of Derby online
Ringling Museum of Art, Florida
Moonlight Landscape, ca.1785
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Mr. Robert Gwillym, 1766
Mrs. Robert Gwillym, 1766
Sheffield Galleries & Museums, UK
Landscape with Dale Abbey, 1785
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Tyne & Wear Museums, England NEW!
Portrait of Miss Jane Monck, 1760
Tyne & Wear Museums Zoomable Database, England NEW!
3 paintings online
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Pictures from Image Archives:
Joseph Wright of Derby in the Art Renewal Center
Joseph Wright of Derby at CGFA 
Joseph Wright of Derby at Insecula
Joseph Wright of Derby in the Web Gallery of Art
WebMuseum 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
ImageNETion
PBase Photo Sharing
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The Athenaeum
2 works online
Other Web Sites:
UK Government Art Collection
Why We Think Nature is Beautiful
Illustrated article by Eugene C. Hargrove
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Joseph Wright of Derby
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Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Arcadian Galleries
Biography of the artist
Artnet Magazine
Moonlit Landscape, 1785
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Sir Brooke Boothby, 1781
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