A faculty member is looking for what he remembers as a painting by Joseph Wright of Derby titled “Carron Iron Works.”  It is a painting of a large structure belching smoke and flames. [Robert Burns visited it, he said, to get a sense what Hell would be like!].  No such painting is listed in Nicholson’s 1968 catalogue raisonne or in the more recent Wright of Derby literature, including Christopher Wright’s Masterworks index.  The faculty thinks it was a recent discovery published a few years ago. 

 

Any information on this would greatly be appreciated.

 

 

Lee Sorensen

Duke University