The Captive, from 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 in 1778, is a similar painting by Wright in the Derby Museum and Art Gallery.

[1] The Captive title is based on the section of the same name in Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768).

The journey takes place in 1762, when Britain was at war with France, and imprisonment was a real possibility for a traveller from a hostile country.

She took the classical pose of the captive in Wright's version and moved it to a modern man who has chosen to waste his time in front of the television.