By WILLIAM BEMROSE,
AUTHOR OF “A MANUAL OF WOOD CARVING,” ETC.
WITH A PREFACE BY COSMO MONKHOUSE.
ILLUSTRATED WITH TWO ETCHINGS BY MR. F. SEYMOUR HADEN, AND OTHER PLATES AND WOODCUTS.
London:
BEMROSE & SONS, 23, OLD BAILEY;
AND DERBY.
1885.
PREFACE.
THE name of Joseph Wright, of Derby, once of high repute among English Artists, has, during the last half-century and more, sunk, altogether undeservedly, into a state of semi-oblivion. The Exhibition at Derby in 1883 did, indeed, something to restore its fame, and it is to be hoped that the present work may do yet more. Both book and exhibition owe their existence mainly to the exertions of Mr. Bemrose, who in this matter may be said to have been moved by a triple love—the love of art, the love of family, and the love of locality. By his kindness I am allowed here to aid in doing justice to an artist of whom not only Derby, but England, should be proud.