Comments on: Very Fine Candlelight Pieces http://www.tanianault.ca/thescratchboard/2008/05/06/very-fine-candlelight-pieces/ Scratchboard art and acrylic paintings by Tania Nault. Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:24:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Tania http://www.tanianault.ca/thescratchboard/2008/05/06/very-fine-candlelight-pieces/comment-page-1/#comment-3687 Tania Fri, 27 May 2011 17:12:47 +0000 http://www.tanianault.ca/thescratchboard/2008/05/06/very-fine-candlelight-pieces/#comment-3687 Hi Ana, The plates (in black and white) used to illustrate this post came from the following book: Nicholson, Benedict. Joseph Wright of Derby: Painter of Light, Vol. I and II. Hew Haven: Yale University Press, 1968. Plates 45: A Girl Reading a Letter by Candlelight, with a Young Man Looking Over Her Shoulder, 1762. Hi Ana,

The plates (in black and white) used to illustrate this post came from the following book: Nicholson, Benedict. Joseph Wright of Derby: Painter of Light, Vol. I and II. Hew Haven: Yale University Press, 1968. Plates 45: A Girl Reading a Letter by Candlelight, with a Young Man Looking Over Her Shoulder, 1762.

]]> By: Ana http://www.tanianault.ca/thescratchboard/2008/05/06/very-fine-candlelight-pieces/comment-page-1/#comment-3685 Ana Mon, 09 May 2011 08:38:39 +0000 http://www.tanianault.ca/thescratchboard/2008/05/06/very-fine-candlelight-pieces/#comment-3685 Hi Tania, I was searching for the paintings of Wright's depicting Girl reading by candlelight and the only site that I found the 1772 versions were yours. Thank you very much. Hi Tania,
I was searching for the paintings of Wright’s depicting Girl reading by candlelight and the only site that I found the 1772 versions were yours.
Thank you very much.

]]> By: Tania http://www.tanianault.ca/thescratchboard/2008/05/06/very-fine-candlelight-pieces/comment-page-1/#comment-2956 Tania Wed, 07 May 2008 05:57:14 +0000 http://www.tanianault.ca/thescratchboard/2008/05/06/very-fine-candlelight-pieces/#comment-2956 Michael, I don't believe so, or rather, nothing I've read so far indicates membership with the freemasons. Wright did, however, associate with members of a group of intellectuals, industrialists and philosophers in Great Britian, the "Lunar Society" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Society Correspondents of the group included Benjamin Franklin, who was a freemason. Perhaps there were other connections? Michael, I don’t believe so, or rather, nothing I’ve read so far indicates membership with the freemasons. Wright did, however, associate with members of a group of intellectuals, industrialists and philosophers in Great Britian, the “Lunar Society” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Society
Correspondents of the group included Benjamin Franklin, who was a freemason. Perhaps there were other connections?

]]> By: Michael Pearce http://www.tanianault.ca/thescratchboard/2008/05/06/very-fine-candlelight-pieces/comment-page-1/#comment-2954 Michael Pearce Wed, 07 May 2008 04:06:55 +0000 http://www.tanianault.ca/thescratchboard/2008/05/06/very-fine-candlelight-pieces/#comment-2954 Tania, do you know if Wright was a freemason? Tania, do you know if Wright was a freemason?

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