Joseph Wright
A Philosopher by Lamplight 1769
Oil on canvas, 1282 x 1029 mm
Derby Museums and Art Gallery 1961-508/1

John British Dixon after Joshua Reynolds
Ugolino 1773
Mezzotint 505 x 615 mm
© Copyright the Trustees of The British Museum

Joseph Wright
Study for 'The Captive King' circa 1772-1773
Pen and wash on paper, 336 x 396 mm
Lent by Derby Museums and Art Gallery

Thomas Ryder, after Joseph Wright
The Captive published by John and Josiah Boydell, 1 October 1786
Stipple engraving, 370 x 475 mm
Lent by Derby Museums and Art Gallery

John Hamilton Mortimer
The Captive
Pencil, pen and ink and watercolour on paper, 106 x 128 mm
Purchased as part of the Oppé Collection with assistance from the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund 1996

John Downman
Robert, Duke of Normandy, in Prison 1779
Oil on copper, 230 x 191 mm
Lent by the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven

William Blake
Lear and Cordelia in Prison circa 1779
Pen and ink and watercolour on paper, 123 x 175 mm
Bequeathed by Miss Alice G.E. Carthew 1940

John Raphael Smith after Henry Fuseli
Belisane and Percival under The Enchantment of Urma from The provenzal tale of Kyot published by John Raphael Smith, 25 August 1782
Mezzotint on paper, 435 x 551 mm
© 2006 Kunsthaus, Zürich. All rights reserved

Philip James De Loutherbourg
Visitor to a Moonlit Churchyard 1790
Oil on canvas, 863 x 685 mm
Lent by the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven

Thomas Robinson
The Hermit of Warkworth 1793
Oil on canvas, 1255 x 1000 mm
Collection of Sir Robert Goff

Maria Cosway
Nightscene: A Woman and Two Children, One Apparently Dead, at Seashore 1800
Brown ink and wash, heightened with white, on paper, 225 x 281 mm
Print Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.

Maria Cosway
Prison Scene circa 1785-1800
Brown ink and wash, heightened in white, on paper, 220 x 281 mm
Print Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.

Richard Cosway
A Nun Surprising a Monk Kissing a Nun in a Church Interior circa 1785-1800
Pencil and watercolour on paper, 199 x 162 mm
Print Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.

Catherine Blake
Agnes c.1800
Tempera on canvas, 137 x 181 mm
Lent by the Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, by whom acquired 1953 through the National Art Collections Fund, 2001

James Gillray
Tales of Wonder! 1 February 1802
Uncoloured etching and aquatint, 260 x 358 mm
Lent by Andrew Edmunds, London

Henry Fuseli
Huon and Amanda with The Dead Alphonso 1804-1805
Oil on canvas, 600 x 440 mm
Lent from The Barrett Collection, Dallas, TX

William Blake
Churchyard Spectres Frightening a Schoolboy circa 1805
Watercolour 281 x 216 mm
Collection of Robert N. Essick

William Blake
Widow Embracing The Turf which Covers her Husband's Grave circa 1805
Pen, grey wash and blue watercolour on paper, 154 x 208 mm
Lent by the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven

Henry Fuseli
Wolfram Observing his Wife in her Walled-in Cell (Wolfram beobachtet seine Gemahlin in der Zelle, wo er sie mit dem Skelett ihres Liebhabers eingekerert hat) circa 1812-1820
Oil on canvas, 970 x 700 mm