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John Wright

Also known as: John Wright; primary name: Wright, J; other name: Wright, John
Details: unknown; publisher/printer; British; Male
Other dates: 1770/71-1844
Address: 169 Piccadilly
Biography: Publisher and bookseller at 169 Piccadilly by 1797; published the weekly Anti-Jacobin Review from 20 November 1797 and 9 July 1798, serial publications for Cobbett from 1802 until major disputes from 1810 led to court cases (see ODNB), and from 1804 Parliamentary Depates (at first for Cobbett and then until 1830 for Hansard).
Bibliography: ODNB

173 related objects

book of prints; print

Museum number: 1863,0509.181-211 |
Producer name: Published by:John BrittonPrinted by:Charles Whittingham |
Production date: 1837 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

dish

Museum number: 1887,0210.5 |
Producer name: BIOG81731 Made by:John Wright |
Production date: 18thC(early) |
Production place: Made in:Staffordshire

dish

Museum number: 1911,0713.1 |
Producer name: BIOG178814 Made by:John Wright |
Production date: 1705 |
Production place: Made in:Staffordshire

drawing; print study

Museum number: 1852,0214.383 |
Producer name: Drawn by:John WrightAfter:William Owen |
Production date: 1820

illustrated book; print

Museum number: 1878,1214.193-200 |
Producer name: After:William HarveyPrint made by:Samuel Williams |
Production date: 1831 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

posset-pot

Museum number: 1887,0210.20 |
Producer name: BIOG81731 Made by:John Wright |
Production date: 1707 |
Production place: Made in:Staffordshire

print

Title: J. Wright, the Celebrated Pedestrian. |
Museum number: 1896,1118.91 |
Producer name: Print made by:Consitt & GoodwillAfter:James Atkinson |
Production date: 1820-1825

print

Museum number: 1859,0709.1388 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles PicartAfter:John Wright |
Production date: 1810-1816

print

Title: Lieut. General the Hon. Sir Galbraith Lowry Cole, The British Gallery of Contemporary Portraits |
Museum number: 1838,0425.123 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles PicartAfter:Sir Thomas Lawrence |
Production date: 1816

print; book-illustration

Title: Lucy Ashton |
Museum number: 1926,0331.807 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas Anthony DeanAfter:John Wright |
Production date: 1819-1860

print

Title: [Mr. John Wright Advocate] |
Museum number: 1935,0522.13.282 |
Producer name: BIOG33550 Print made by:John Kay |
Production date: 1801

print

Museum number: 1913,0714.41 |
Producer name: BIOG51708 Print made by:John Wright |
Production date: 1880-1913

print

Title: The Dark Pool |
Museum number: 1913,0714.45 |
Producer name: BIOG51708 Print made by:John Wright |
Production date: 1880-1913

print

Museum number: 2011,7084.61 |
Producer name: Print made by:John WrightAfter:John Jackson |
Production date: 1820

print

Title: The Pond |
Museum number: 1913,0714.43 |
Producer name: BIOG51708 Print made by:John Wright |
Production date: 1880-1913

print

Title: Long Water |
Museum number: 1913,0714.44 |
Producer name: BIOG51708 Print made by:John Wright |
Production date: 1880-1913

print

Title: The Rev.d William Smith AM |
Museum number: 1868,0612.1533 |
Producer name: Print made by:John WrightAfter:Robert Muller |
Production date: 1796

print; satirical print; broadside

Title: The powder treason ... founded in hell, confounded in heaven |
Museum number: 1852,1009.248 |
Producer name: BIOG150613 Print made by:Michael Droeshout |
Production date: 1620-1625

print; book; book-illustration; frontispiece; title-page

Museum number: 1866,1013.859 |
Producer name: After:James NorthcoteAfter:George Henry Harlow |
Production date: 1828 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1849,0721.1159-1160 |
Producer name: After:Thomas StothardPrint made by:Andrew Birrell |
Production date: 1797 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book of prints

Museum number: 1977,U.21.1-23 |
Producer name: After:James Duffield HardingPrint made by:William Bernard Cooke |
Production date: 1832 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Jedediah Strutt Esq |
Museum number: 1920,1211.1288 |
Producer name: Print made by:Henry MeyerAfter:John Wright |
Production date: 1833 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: The Sunday market |
Museum number: 1978,U.501 |
Producer name: After:George CruikshankBlock cut by:Robert Branston |
Production date: 1833 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: A peep into the cave of Jacobinism. |
Museum number: 1851,0901.931 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:John Wright |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; broadside

Title: Eigentliche Abbildung wie ettlich englische Edelleut einen Raht schließen den König sampt dem gantze |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3207 |
Producer name: BIOG31787 Published by:Abraham Hogenberg |
Production date: 1606

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1923,0213.27 |
Producer name: Print made by:John AndersonAfter:George Samuel |
Production date: 1799 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Hunting |
Museum number: 1932,0311.3 |
Producer name: Print made by:John WrightAfter:George Morland |
Production date: 1794 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Match Maker |
Museum number: 1902,1011.6782 |
Producer name: Print made by:John WrightPublished by:Henry Parker |
Production date: 1767-1773 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Lieut. General the Hon. Sir Galbraith Lowry Cole, The British Gallery of Contemporary Portraits |
Museum number: 1838,0425.124 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles PicartAfter:Sir Thomas Lawrence |
Production date: 1816

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1900,0613.97 |
Producer name: Block cut by:John WrightAfter:James Northcote |
Production date: 1828

print

Title: The Gondola |
Museum number: 1913,0714.47 |
Producer name: BIOG51708 Print made by:John Wright |
Production date: 1880-1913

print

Title: The Pond |
Museum number: 1913,0714.37 |
Producer name: BIOG51708 Print made by:John Wright |
Production date: 1880-1913

print; book-illustration

Title: Marquess Cornwallis. |
Museum number: 1873,0510.1101 |
Producer name: Print made by:John WrightAfter:John Singleton Copley |
Production date: 1795-1800

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1858,0626.85 |
Producer name: Block cut by:Robert BranstonBlock cut by:John Wright |
Production date: 1829-1831

print

Title: His Royal Highness Frederick, Duke of York |
Museum number: 1870,1008.2757 |
Producer name: Print made by:John WrightAfter:John Jackson |
Production date: 1822 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1923,0213.30 |
Producer name: Print made by:John AndersonAfter:George Samuel |
Production date: 1799 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1923,0213.21 |
Producer name: Print made by:John AndersonAfter:George Samuel |
Production date: 1799 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book; book-illustration

Museum number: 1866,1013.861-866 |
Producer name: After:George CruikshankBlock cut by:Frederick William Branston |
Production date: 1829 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Doublûres of characters; -or-striking resemblances in phisiognomy.- |
Museum number: 1868,0808.6782 |
Producer name: After:James GillrayPrint made by:George Cruikshank |
Production date: 1818 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Doublûres of characters;-or-striking resemblances Lord Longbow, the alarmist, discovering the miseri |
Museum number: 1859,0316.2 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:John Wright |
Production date: 1818 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Sir Thomas Bernard, Bart L.L.D. The British Gallery of Contemporary Portraits |
Museum number: A,2.114 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles PicartAfter:John Wright |
Production date: 1815 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Two Pair of Portraits |
Museum number: 1851,0208.325 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:John Wright |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; drawing book

Museum number: 1977,U.996 |
Producer name: After:William Henry PynePrint made by:John Wright |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Messrs Parsons & Burton in the Surrender of Calais |
Museum number: 1933,1014.373 |
Producer name: Print made by:John WrightPublished by:E Lay |
Production date: 1793 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: John Hoppner, Esq. R.A The British Gallery of Contemporary Portraits |
Museum number: 1930,0130.4 |
Producer name: After:John HoppnerIntermediary draughtsman:John Wright |
Production date: 1812 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Rev.d George Heath D.D. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.1659 |
Producer name: Print made by:John WrightAfter:John Hoppner |
Production date: 1809 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: A charm for a democracy, reviewed, analysed & destroyed Jany 1st 1799 to the confusion of its affili |
Museum number: 1851,0901.958 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas RowlandsonPublished by:John Wright |
Production date: 1799 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Shepherds |
Museum number: 1866,1114.386 |
Producer name: After:George MorlandPrint made by:John Wright |
Production date: 1794 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Evidence to character;-being a portrait of a traitor, by his friends & by himself |
Museum number: 1851,0901.935 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:John Wright |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: New Morality;-or- The Promis'd installment of the high-priest of the theophilanthropes, with the hom |
Museum number: 1981,U.323 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:John Wright |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: A peep into the cave of Jacobinism. |
Museum number: 1983,U.214 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:John Wright |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Sir George Beaumont, Bart. |
Museum number: 1892,0314.91 |
Producer name: After:John HoppnerIntermediary draughtsman:John Wright |
Production date: 1812 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Mr Parsons, Comedian |
Museum number: K,63.16 |
Producer name: Print made by:John WrightAfter:Charles Hayter |
Production date: 1792 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; frontispiece

Museum number: 1923,0213.18 |
Producer name: Print made by:John AndersonAfter:George Samuel |
Production date: 1799 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Owen |
Museum number: 1878,0511.1127 |
Producer name: Print made by:Henry MeyerAfter:John Wright |
Production date: 1809 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Councellor ego.-I:E: Little I, Myself I. |
Museum number: 1851,0901.934 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:John Wright |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: His Royal Highness George Augustus Frederick, Prin The British Gallery of Contemporary Portraits |
Museum number: A,2.19 |
Producer name: Print made by:Luigi SchiavonettiAfter:Thomas Phillips |
Production date: 1809 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: John Hoppner, Esq. R.A The British Gallery of Contemporary Portraits |
Museum number: 1876,1209.283 |
Producer name: Print made by:Henry MeyerAfter:John Hoppner |
Production date: 1812 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: A peep into the cave of Jacobinism. |
Museum number: 1981,U.322 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:John Wright |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: John Wright, |
Museum number: 1951,1110.128 |
Producer name: BIOG168330 Published by:J Herbert |
Production date: 1794 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; title-page

Museum number: 1923,0213.17 |
Producer name: Print made by:John AndersonAfter:George Samuel |
Production date: 1799 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Museum number: 1978,U.3466 |
Producer name: After:Giovanni Battista CiprianiAfter:Francesco Bartolozzi |
Production date: 1800 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Messrs Parsons & Burton in the Surrender of Calais |
Museum number: K,63.5 |
Producer name: Print made by:John WrightPublished by:E Lay |
Production date: 1793 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: New morality;-or-the promis'd installment of the high-priest of the theophilanthropes, with the homa |
Museum number: 1865,1111.2099 |
Producer name: Print made by:George CruikshankAfter:James Gillray |
Production date: 1818 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Councellor ego.-I:E: Little I, Myself I. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.6770 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:John Wright |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Erasmus Darwin M.D. |
Museum number: 1933,0626.71 |
Producer name: Print made by:John Taylor WedgwoodIntermediary draughtsman:John Thurston |
Production date: 1820 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Doublûres of characters; -or-striking resemblances in phisiognomy.- |
Museum number: 1851,0901.940 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:John Wright |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print; book-illustration

Title: Doublûres of characters; - or - striking resemblances in phisiognomy. - |
Museum number: 1868,0808.6781 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:John Wright |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Two Pair of Portraits |
Museum number: 1868,0808.6794 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:John Wright |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1923,0213.32 |
Producer name: Print made by:John AndersonAfter:George Samuel |
Production date: 1799 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Evidence to character; - being a portrait of a traitor, by his friends & by himself |
Museum number: 1935,0522.5.72.a |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:John Wright |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Evidence to character;-being a portrait of a traitor, by his friends & by himself |
Museum number: 1981,U.320 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:John Wright |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: A charm for a democracy, reviewed, analysed & destroyed Jany 1st 1799 to the confusion of its affili |
Museum number: 1981,U.252 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas RowlandsonPublished by:John Wright |
Production date: 1799 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Hunting |
Museum number: 1932,0311.6 |
Producer name: Print made by:John WrightAfter:George Morland |
Production date: 1794 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1923,0213.24 |
Producer name: Print made by:John AndersonAfter:George Samuel |
Production date: 1799 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Robert Ker Porter Esqr. |
Museum number: 1850,1021.21 |
Producer name: Print made by:Anthony CardonAfter:John Wright |
Production date: 1806 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: New morality; -or- the promis'd installment of the high-priest of the theophilanthropes, with the ho |
Museum number: 1868,0808.6762 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:John Wright |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Mr. John Wright |
Museum number: 1915,0216.45 |
Producer name: Print made by:Henry MeyerAfter:James Saxon |
Production date: 1816 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Evidence to character; -being a portrait of a traitor, by his friends & by himself |
Museum number: 1868,0808.6769 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:John Wright |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1923,0213.31 |
Producer name: Print made by:John AndersonAfter:George Samuel |
Production date: 1799 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Master Tomlins Wright |
Museum number: 1852,0214.302 |
Producer name: Print made by:Robert LaurieAfter:John Wright |
Production date: 1778 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Revd John Gill, D.D. |
Museum number: 1902,1011.6781 |
Producer name: Print made by:John WrightAfter:Mason Chamberlin I |
Production date: 1770 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Van Goyen his wife and child |
Museum number: 1979,1215.21 |
Producer name: Print made by:John WrightAfter:Frans Hals |
Production date: 1771

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1858,0626.86 |
Producer name: Block cut by:Robert BranstonBlock cut by:John Wright |
Production date: 1829-1831

print

Title: Boy and pigs |
Museum number: 1866,1114.385 |
Producer name: After:George MorlandPrint made by:John Wright |
Production date: 1794 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Gondola |
Museum number: 1913,0714.40 |
Producer name: BIOG51708 Print made by:John Wright |
Production date: 1880-1913

print; book-illustration

Title: The Elbe at Vogelsang, near Pirna. |
Museum number: 1918,1010.69 |
Producer name: Block cut by:Robert BranstonBlock cut by:John Wright |
Production date: 1829-1838

print

Title: Carabinieri |
Museum number: 1913,0714.42 |
Producer name: BIOG51708 Print made by:John Wright |
Production date: 1880-1913

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1923,0213.22 |
Producer name: Print made by:John AndersonAfter:George Samuel |
Production date: 1799 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: New Morality;-or- The Promis'd installment of the high-priest of the theophilanthropes, with the hom |
Museum number: 1868,0808.6761 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:John Wright |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: A peep into the cave of Jacobinism. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.6764 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:John Wright |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Hunting |
Museum number: 1932,0311.7 |
Producer name: Print made by:John WrightAfter:George Morland |
Production date: 1794 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Two Pair of Portraits |
Museum number: 1935,0522.5.72.b |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:John Wright |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Jedediah Strutt Esq |
Museum number: Heal,Portraits.93 |
Producer name: Print made by:Henry MeyerAfter:John Wright |
Production date: 1833 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: John Whitehurst F.R.S |
Museum number: J,4.297 |
Producer name: Print made by:Adam SmithAfter:John Wright |
Production date: 1788 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Mr Macklin, Comedian |
Museum number: 1870,0514.1944 |
Producer name: Print made by:John WrightAfter:Charles Hayter |
Production date: 1794 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Sir George Beaumont, Bart. |
Museum number: 1876,1209.36 |
Producer name: Print made by:Samuel AgarIntermediary draughtsman:John Wright |
Production date: 1812 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1923,0213.19 |
Producer name: Print made by:John AndersonAfter:George Samuel |
Production date: 1799 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Councellor ego.-I:E: Little I, Myself I. |
Museum number: 1935,0522.5.6.b |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:John Wright |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Two Pair of Portraits |
Museum number: 1981,U.321 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:John Wright |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

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