Coalbrookdale by Night

Coalbrookdale by Night
Artist Philip James de Loutherbourg
Year 1801
Type Oil painting
Location Science Museum, London

Coalbrookdale by Night is an 1801 painting by Philip James de Loutherbourg. It depicts the Madeley Wood (or Bedlam) Furnaces, which belonged to the Coalbrookdale Company from 1776 to 1796. The picture has come to symbolize the birth of the Industrial Revolution in Ironbridge, England. It is held in the collections of the Science Museum in London.