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    A Philosopher by lamplight (also known as A Hermit Studying Anatomy) is a painting by Joseph Wright of Derby. It is not known when Wright painted the...
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    A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery, or the full title, A Philosopher giving that Lecture on the Orrery in which a lamp is put in place of the Sun, is...
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    Joseph Wright of Derby (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    Gladiator by Candlelight (1765), his A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery (1766), in the Derby Museum and Art Gallery, and An Experiment on a Bird in the...
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    The full title of the painting is The Alchymist, in Search of the Philosopher's Stone, Discovers Phosphorus, and prays for the successful Conclusion...
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    Miravan Breaking Open the Tomb of his Ancestors (category Paintings by Joseph Wright of Derby)
    this characteristic with a style that has been called Neo-Gothic which Wright also used in his painting A Philosopher by Lamplight, also known as Democritus...
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    Arthur Patrick Keily (18 March 1921 – 2 March 2016) was a British marathon runner. Originally an amateur footballer, Keily served during the Second World...
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    The Captive (painting) (category Paintings by Joseph Wright of Derby)
    Sterne is a painting by Joseph Wright of Derby completed in 1774 and now in the National Gallery of Canada. Sterne's Captive, first exhibited by the artist...
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    The Blacksmith's Shop (category Paintings by Joseph Wright of Derby)
    The Blacksmith's Shop is a recurring theme of five paintings by Joseph Wright of Derby. The version in his hometown was originally completed in 1771. Joseph...
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    The Earthstopper (category Paintings by Joseph Wright of Derby)
    Earthstopper on the Banks of the Derwent is a painting by Joseph Wright of Derby originally completed in 1773. The scene shows a man digging at nighttime beside the...
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    Indian Widow (category Paintings by Joseph Wright of Derby)
    Indian Widow is a painting by Joseph Wright of Derby, completed in late 1783 or early 1784 and first shown in his solo exhibition in London in 1785. The...
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    Grotto in the Gulf of Salerno (category Paintings by Joseph Wright of Derby)
    light from a sunset with a group of bandits within. The "banditti" version and another version with Julia the Younger was sold by Wright as a pair with...
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    the view by day and the other by moonlight. Wright admitted that he had not observed this scene directly, "Moon lights & fire lights are but a sort of...
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    The Captive King (category Paintings by Joseph Wright of Derby)
    Captive King is a sketch by Joseph Wright of Derby completed in 1772 or 1773. It depicts the French nobleman Guy de Lusignan held prisoner by Saladin. The...
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    Thomas Borrow and Ann Borrow (category Paintings by Joseph Wright of Derby)
    1763 and are 40 by 50 inches in size. Borrow died on 6 August 1786. They had one son name Thomas who spelt his surname Borough and a daughter Anne Honor...
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  • traditions by sombre lamplight; degeneration in a learned dressing gown with uncombed hair has replaced degeneration with a beer glass. And a shirking unsociability...
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    The Man Who Laughs (category Novels by Victor Hugo)
    complicated by continual distancing from the lower class. According to Algernon Charles Swinburne, "it is a book to be rightly read, not by the lamplight of realism...
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    Studying a Statue of Venus by Lamplight (c. 1690, Leiden Collection, New York) or Old Man Reading by Candlelight (c. 1700, Museo del Prado, Madrid). A genre...
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  • Family Scene by Lamplight (1981) Ready-to-wear Fashion for Next Spring: "Garlands, Nests and Flowers" (1981) Seated Figure Contemplating a "Great Tapeworm...
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  • The Little Prince (category Works by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
    the man and the woman a child had hollowed himself out a place and fallen asleep. He turned in his slumber, and in the dim lamplight I saw his face. What...
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  • This is a list of fictional towns in literature. Contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also References Passmore, Kevin (1997)...
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    saddlebag, and studied it late at night by lamplight; he related that he said to himself, "You never can make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate...
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  • Thumbnail for Clark Ashton Smith bibliography
    The following is a list of works by Clark Ashton Smith. The Double Shadow and Other Fantasies (Auburn Journal, 1933) Out of Space and Time (Arkham House...
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    Witney: Lamplight. ISBN 1-899246-06-1. Daniel A. Bell; Avner de-Shalit (2011), "Oxford", Spirit of Cities: Why the Identity of a City Matters in a Global...
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  • August Derleth bibliography (category Bibliographies by writer)
    Magazine, January 1946), Lamplight for the Dark (first published in Redbook Magazine January 1941); Shane's Girls (also as Happiness is a Gift) (first published...
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    her husband's identity; Psyche, against Cupid's commands, looks at him by lamplight which wakes Cupid; Cupid abandons Psyche, who wanders in search of him...
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    Press published a book of his essays translated by Eileen J. Cheng, titled Jottings under Lamplight. Nostalgia (1913) 吶喊 (pinyin: Nàhǎn),1923, translated...
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    almost entirely by himself, moving the soil, mulch, plants and implements in the boot of his car. He often worked through the night by lamplight, and it was...
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    Aline Chassériau (category Paintings by Théodore Chassériau)
    Aline and I were Théodore's models for many years. He drew at night under lamplight and posed us as he liked. Adèle has superb arms; they appear everywhere...
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    Peter Perez Burdett (category Paintings by Joseph Wright of Derby)
    1769 in Liverpool and became its first president. Academy by Lamplight, a 1768–69 painting by Joseph Wright of Derby is thought to be of Burdett's academy...
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