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}}</ref><ref name="Baird">{{cite web | last = Baird | first = Olga | first2= Malcolm |last2=Dick | title = Joseph Wright of Derby: Art, the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution | url = http://www.search.revolutionaryplayers.org.uk/content/files/81/76/355.rtf | accessdate = 23 November 2007 }}.</ref> based on his book ''Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, Optics &c''. (1760). To illustrate his lectures, Ferguson used various machines, models, and instruments. Wright may have attended these talks, especially as tickets were available from John Whitehurst, Wright's close neighbour, a clockmaker and a scientist. Wright also could have drawn on Whitehurst's practical knowledge to learn more about the orrery and its operation.
[[File:Joseph Wright - An Iron Forge - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|left|''An Iron Forge'', 1772, oil on canvas ]]
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Joseph Wright was buried in the grounds of [[St Alkmund's Church, Derby|St Alkmund's Church]], Derby. Controversially, the church was demolished in 1968 to make way for a major new section of the inner ring road cutting through the town centre, and now lies beneath the road. Wright's remains were removed to Nottingham Road Cemetery. In 1997, his tombstone was placed at the side of Derby Cathedral, and in 2002, it was brought inside and wall-mounted in a prominent place near the well-visited memorial to [[Bess of Hardwick]].<ref>{{cite web | title = Photographs around Iron Gate & Sadler Gate in Derby City Centre, England | url = http://www.derbyphotos.co.uk/areas_city/irongate.htm | accessdate = 1 December 2007 }}</ref>
Wright's name also has been given to the sixth form centre situated on Cathedral Row, Derby (not far from Iron Gate). The Joseph Wright Centre was opened in 2005 as the new flagship site for Derby College. The building is named after the eighteenth-century painter because his "artwork captured the many scientific and technological advances of the Industrial Revolution."<ref>{{cite web | title = Website, with photos, of the Joseph Wright Centre, Derby College | url =http://www.derby-college.ac.uk/college-sites/the-joseph-wright-centre2| accessdate = 8 June 2009 }}</ref>
In early 2013 Derby City Council and Derby Civic Society announced they would erect a [[blue plaque]] on his home at 27 Queen Street in Derby.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/LIST-DERBEIANS-HONOURED/story-18125437-detail/story.html#axzz2KjCUpLKV|title=LIST OF DERBEIANS TO BE HONOURED|work=Derby Telegraph|accessdate=11 February 2015}}</ref>
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