| Description | Richard Arkwright’s water-powered spinning mill at Cromford. Daniels describes
Arkwright’s Cotton Mills by Night in which the buildings themselves are floodlit as well as being lit from within. Porter talks of Wright’s "romantic" attitude to the Industrial Revolution. Daniels talks about the spectacle and patriotism of industry.
Porter on the nature of 18th century British society; Wright celebrates the culture of industry and its heroes. Portrait of Samuel Oldknow, holding the muslin that made his fortune; Francis Hurt with a lump of lead ore to symbolise his lead smelting works; Jedediah Strutt, one-time partner of Richard Arkwright; Sir Richard Arkwright, with part of the cotton spinning machine on which his wealth was founded. Egerton VO this last. Egerton and the portrait. Fraser on Wright’s health. Egerton believes Wright suffered from clinical depression. The Old Man and Death; The Captive from Sterne (based on a scene in Lawrence Sterne’s novel Sentimental Journey); The Indian Widow (aka The Widow of an Indian Chief Watching the Arms of her Deceased Husband (1785). Fraser VO. Wright continued to work at capturing light and its effects. Landscape with a Rainbow (c.1793). River. Rydal Waterfall. Egerton. Ullswater. Fraser VO Self Portrait. Credits run beside details of paintings
Miravan Breaking Open the Tomb of His Ancestors (1772), A Grotto in the Gulf of Salernum With the Figure of Julia, Banished from Rome (1780), A Philosopher by Lamplight (1769), and The Alchemist in Search of the Philosopher’s Stone (1771). |
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