A Biography of Joseph Wright, Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797), Self Portrait in a Black Feathered Hat (c1767-1770). Charcoal on Paper. Derby Museums & Art Gallery. ...

A Portrait of Jedediah Strutt,

A Portrait of John Whitehurst, John Whitehurst: Clockmaker, Engineer and Geologist Text: Malcolm Dick John Whitehurst was born in Congleton, Cheshire in 1713...

Basaltic Quarry, Barrow Hill,

Basaltic Rocks: Pearl Hill, Rowley Regis (opposite page 31), Image from: William Hawkes Smith, Birmingham and its Vicinity as a Manufacturing and Commercial District (London and Birmingham, 183...

Basaltic Rocks: Pouck Hill, near Walsall (opposite page 31), Image from: William Hawkes Smith, Birmingham and its Vicinity as a Manufacturing and Commercial District (London and Birmingham, 183...

Basaltic Rocks: The Hailstone, Rowley Regis (opposite page 31), Image from: William Hawkes Smith, Birmingham and its Vicinity as a Manufacturing and Commercial District (London and Birmingham, 183...

Bridge through a Cavern, Moonlight (1791), Wright visited Italy in 1773-1775 and Bridge through a Cavern, Moonlight is one of several scenes he painted of the Naples area. Wright was ...

Cavern at the Wren's Nest, near Dudley,

Detail of Map of Birmingham in the year of 1810, by John Kempson, Image from: Local Studies and History, Birmingham Central Library

Diagram exhibiting the relative position of the Limestone and Thick Coal,

Dudley Castle from the Grounds near the Lime Stone Caverns,