Showing posts with label Joseph Wright. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joseph Wright. Show all posts

Tuesday, 7 April 2009

My, Susanna, how you've grown!

There's a painting by Joseph Wright of Derby, a portrait of one Susanna Hope.



When part of this portrait was used on the cover of a novel recently, a touch of inflation seems to have gone on.



Wright, by the way, is responsible for the famous and unpleasant painting 'An Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump', as used on a now out-of-print edition of Frankenstein.