# View of San Felice Circeo, near Gaeta, Italy [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [WRIGHT, Joseph]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 53 x 92 cm ## Commentary View of San Felice Circeo, near Gaeta, Italy c. 1475 Oil on canvas, 53 x 92 cm Private collection This landscape depicts a view of the old town of San Felice Circeo, with Mount Circeo beyond, at the northern end of the Gulf of Gaeta. Joseph Wright of Derby spent nearly two years travelling in Italy, for much of which he was based nearby in Rome, from where he would make sorties out into the neighbouring countryside to sketch the dramatic Italian scenery and absorb the Mediterranean light that so inspired him. ## Related artworks - [A Grotto in the Gulf of Salerno]() - [A Philosopher Lecturing with a Mechanical Planetary]() - [Academy by Lamplight \(detail\)]() - [Academy by Lamplight]() - [An Academy by Lamplight]() - [Earthstopper at the Bank of Derwent]() - [Experiment with the Air Pump]() - [Indian Widow]() - [Iron Forge Viewed from Outside]() - [Landscape with Rainbow]() - [Miravan Opening the Grave of his Forefathers]() - [Portrait of Jane Darwin and Her Son William Brown Darwin]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()