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 THE GENUINE COLLECTION 
 
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 A Selection of the moft Capital Performances of that efteemed Artiftg 
 
 Mr. Joseph Wright, of Derby, 
 
 DECEASED : 
 
 COMPRISING 
 
 A VIEW of ULLSWATER, feveral others In and near Rome, Naples, &c- 
 *The Old Man and Death ; the Widow of an Indian Chief s 
 
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 A CAPITAL VIEW OF AN ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS*. 
 
 Refides many other interefting Subjeds. 
 
 id) totll be giolti bp auction,, 
 
 r. CHRISTIE 
 
 AT HIS ROOM, 
 
 (N°. 118 , late the Royal Academy ) in Tall Mall \ 
 
 On WEDNESDAY,. MAY the 6th, 1801, 
 
 AT TWELVE o’CLOC'K, 
 
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 May be Viewed Two Days preceding the Sale, when Catalogues may be- had . in, 
 
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 s JLA.UINS— fmall, unfinifhed, upright. 
 
 2 A View of the Lakes, Ditto. ...<■: 
 
 3 Ditto. 
 
 4 A View with a Bridge, Ditto. 
 
 5 A mountainous Landfcape, Ditto. 
 
 6 A Cattle, by Moonlight, in dead Colour. 
 
 *] A Fire in a Foreft, by Moonlight. 
 
 8 A mountainous and woody Landfcape, Oval. 
 
 9 Ruins of a Roman Temple, by Fire Light. 
 
 10 A Boy with a Dog. 
 
 14 A Landfcape in the Stile of Artois. 
 
 12 A Hilly Landfcape, with a Hated Barn. 
 
 13 A fmall Mountainous Ditto. 
 
 A fmall pleafing View of a Harbour by Moonlight, and an unfiniihed Landfcape 
 the Companion. 
 
 A Lake Scene unfiniihed. 
 
 A warm mountainous Landfcape, fmall upright. 
 
 A View of Carnarvon Caftle by Fire and Moonlight, unfiniihed. 
 
 An Italian Landfcape with Ruin. 
 
 A Landfcape, a Rock Scene. 
 
 20 A View of the Ponte Nomentano, near Rome, unfiniihed. 
 
 21 The Dead Soldier, unfinifhed. 
 
 22 A View of the Lake of Nemi, a warm Evening Scene. 
 
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 Lady and Beggar Boy, unfinilhed. 
 
 The Glafs-Houfe, a Sketch : the Fire exceedingly well exprefFed. 
 
 A fmall View of an Eruption of Mount Vefuvius by Moonlight. 
 
 A Landfcape unfinifhed. 
 
 View of an Eruption of Mount Vefuvius by Moonlight, with a View of the Bay 
 of Naples. 
 
 A Landfcape, and Figures with a tilted Cart ; a View of Matlock High Tor in 
 
 the Diftance very rich and glowing Effedh 
 
 Portrait of a Beggarinan. 
 
 A Landfcape with a Monumental Ruin by Moonlight. 
 
 A Landfcape, Sun-fet. 
 
 A pleafing View of a Lake by Moonlight. 
 
 An Italian, rocky Landfcape and Figures. 
 
 An Eruption of- Vefuvius by Moonlight, viewed through the Fog— — fingularly fine 
 
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 A View on the Lakes in Weftmoreland. 
 
 A Ditto 
 
 Virgil’s Tomb— a pleafing, high-finifhed piaure. 
 
 A mountainous and woody Landfcape, a View in the Neighbourhood of Matlock. 
 A fmall Italian Landfcape, after Wilfon. 
 
 A Boy and Girl with a Blown Bladder : the Countenances full of lively Expreflion, 
 and the Whole delicately and highly fitiilhcd. 
 
 A Landfcape view r ed through a Cavern by Moonlight. 
 
 A View of Ullefwater Lake and Skiddaw. 
 
 An upright View in the Convent of the Latomie at Syracufe. 
 
 A Rocky Landfcape, with a River by Moonlight. 
 
 A Mountainous Landfcape in the Neighbourhood of the Lakes. 
 
 A Landfcape with a Rainbow, View near Chefterfield in Derbylhire. 
 
 The Cafcade of Terni, near Tivoli. 
 
 A Pair of elegant Views of the Lake of Albano, with the Caftel Gandolfo, and 
 the companion the Lake of Nemi. 
 
 Sterne’s Maria, an elegant Figure delicately painted. 
 
 A Landfcape, View of the Lake of Albano, a beautiful warm Scene. 
 
 Romeo and Juliet in the Sepulchre, a fpirited Compofition ; the Intereft con- 
 fiderably heightened by the Shadow of Figures approaching the Tomb, capital. 
 View of a Cottage in Needwood Foreft. 
 
 William and Margaret, from the popular Ballad, capital. 
 
 The Cololfeo at Rome with Figures, a highly finilhed View of this grand and 
 interefting Monument of Antiquity 
 
 A View of Ditto by Moonlight, with a Figure of a Friar at his evening Devotion 
 to the Virgin 
 
 
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 56 A philofopher in his Study by Lamplight ■ 1 a highly finithed and brilliant co- 
 
 loured Pidlure 
 
 57 A large and romantic View of the Head of Ullfwater Lake from Lyson’s Tower 
 
 in Gray doc Park, the Seat of the Duke of Norfolk. 
 
 58 The Allegory of the Old Man and Death in a pidlurefque Landfcape, a River 
 
 Scene with Gothic Ruins- a very correct Knowledge of Anatomy isdifplayed 
 
 fn the Figure of Death ; the Alarm of the old Peafant is finely expreffed, and 
 the Lights throughout the Picture are uncommonly brilliant. 
 
 59 Lufignan in prifon — The interior finely illumined, capital. 
 
 60 A fmall Prifon Scene, with a fingle Figure. 
 
 61 A Ditto. 
 
 62 The Alchymift in his Elaboratory with Affiftants. This admirable Performance 
 
 prefents a happy Difplay of the Artift’s Talents. The Effedt of Light iffuing from 
 the Sand-heat, and refledted from the Retort and furrounding Implements is con- 
 trived with furprifing Effect, amounting to perfect Illufion— truly capital. 
 
 63 The Hermit, companion to the preceding, capital. 
 
 64 THE INDIAN WIDOW. This elegant painting is replete with poetical Beau- 
 
 ties: the Conteft of the Day is over, but the War is ftill waged among the Ele- 
 ments, and a Volcano on the Right adds to the Turbulence of the Scene. The 
 Apathy of excefiive Grief is confpicuous in the diftreffed Female, who is thus 
 admirably contrasted with the agitated Objedls of the Back Ground. 
 
 $5 A grand ERUPTION of VESUVIUS, feen acrofs the Bay by Moonlight — 
 
 This magnificent Scene fo often attempted by the Pencils of various 
 Mailers, has finely, never been expreffed with more Grandeur than in this Effort 
 of Mr. Wright— -the Effedl is awful beyond Defcription — Earth, Air and Water 
 appear as but one Element. It is thus that real Genius can manage Nature at 
 its Will ; and the Art iff who transfers her to the Canvas with fo much Truth, 
 kindles a Eighty which will ever be refledled with Luftre upon his own Native. 
 
 FINIS.. 
 
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