The Art Institute of Chicago
The Captive, from Sterne
- Charcoal, chalk and watercolour
- 13 ¾ × 18 inches · 355 × 460 mm
- Drawn in 1786
In the original frame
Engraved: Thomas Ryder, ‘Joseph Wright, Pinxit John & Josiah Boydell excudit 1786. Ryder, Sculpsit The Captive’, 1 October 1786.
This drawing is accompanied by a copy of the print, Clayton, P28, state III.
Collections
- Dinny Cory (née Dawn Davidson) 1919-2012;
- Anonymous sale, Dreweatt’s, May 27, 2021, lot 199;
- Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd
Exhibitions
- London, Shakespeare Gallery, 52 Pall Mall, Drawings After the Most Capital Pictures in England, 1790 no. 31.
Literature
- John Boydell (publisher), A Catalogue of the Pictures, etc., in the Shakespeare Gallery, Pall Mall, London, 1790, pp. xii-xiii, xvii, 137;
- Benedict Nicholson, Joseph Wright of Derby: Painter of Light, New Haven and London, 1968, vol.II, p. 241-242, no. 216;
- Timothy Clayton, ‘A Catalogue of the Engraved Works of Joseph Wright of Derby’, listed under cat. no. P28, in Judy Egerton, Wright of Derby, exh. cat., London (Tate), 1990, p.249.