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John Wesley

Also known as: John Wesley; primary name: Wesley, John
Details: individual; cleric/religious official; British; Male
Life dates: 1703-1791
Biography: Founder of Methodism.

104 related objects

bust

Museum number: 1933,1026.1.CR |
Producer name: BIOG81610 Made by:Enoch Wood |
Production date: 1791 |
Production place: Made in:Burslem

cameo

Museum number: 1915,0608.16 |
Producer name: BIOG68368 Made by:Derby Porcelain Factory |
Production place: Made in:Derby (Derbyshire)

drawing

Museum number: 1854,0513.336 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1798

drawing; print study

Museum number: 1955,0709.24 |
Producer name: BIOG29435 Drawn by:Francis Carruthers Gould |
Production date: 1900

figure

Museum number: 1920,0508.1 |
Producer name: BIOG71148 Factory of:Sampson Hancock |
Production date: 1866 |
Production place: Factory in:Derby (Derbyshire)

intaglio

Museum number: 1887,0307,I.528 |
Producer name: BIOG81101 Factory of:Wedgwood |
Production place: Factory in:Etruria (England)

medal

Museum number: SSB,245.143 |
Producer name: BIOG111756 Designed by:W Mainwaring |
Production date: 1789 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

medal

Museum number: 1906,1103.468 |
Producer name: BIOG113137 Designed by:John Ottley |
Production date: 1836 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

medal

Museum number: M.4962 |
Production date: 1789 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

medal

Museum number: M.4960 |
Producer name: BIOG111756 Designed by:W Mainwaring |
Production date: 1789 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

medal

Museum number: M.4989 |
Producer name: BIOG111756 Designed by:W Mainwaring |
Production date: 1791 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

medal

Museum number: 1992,0113.7083 |
Production date: 1789

medal

Museum number: 1992,0113.7082 |
Producer name: BIOG108351 Made by:F Garter |
Production date: 19thC-20thC

medal

Museum number: M.4988 |
Producer name: BIOG109218 Designed by:John Gregory Hancock |
Production date: 1791 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

medal

Museum number: M.4959 |
Producer name: BIOG111756 Designed by:W Mainwaring |
Production date: 1789 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

medal

Museum number: M.4990 |
Producer name: BIOG109218 Designed by:John Gregory Hancock |
Production date: 1791 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

medal

Museum number: 1922,0822.20 |
Producer name: BIOG111756 Designed by:W Mainwaring |
Production date: 1791 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

medal

Museum number: M.4984 |
Producer name: BIOG111756 Designed by:W Mainwaring |
Production date: 1791 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

medal

Museum number: M.6264 |
Producer name: BIOG113137 Designed by:John Ottley |
Production date: 1836 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

print

Title: Ninty four years have I sojourned upon this earth [Rev.d Mr Hamilton, Mr. Wesley, & Mr. Cole Methodi |
Museum number: 1935,0522.13.128 |
Producer name: BIOG33550 Print made by:John Kay |
Production date: 1790

print

Title: The Tree of Life |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4623 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1770

print

Museum number: 1863,0214.462.+ |
Producer name: BIOG119203 Published by:Cadell & Davies |
Production date: 1812

print

Museum number: 1903,0420.1 |
Producer name: BIOG18770 Print made by:George Baxter |
Production date: 1858

print

Title: The Rev.d John Wesley, M.A. |
Museum number: 1872,0511.510 |
Producer name: BIOG43645 Print made by:William Ridley |
Production date: 1791

print

Museum number: 1848,1125.394 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: late 18th century

print

Museum number: 1848,1013.236 |
Producer name: BIOG27871 Print made by:Alfred Robert Freebairn |
Production date: 1840s

print

Title: The Rev.d John Wesley, M.A. |
Museum number: 1891,0414.65 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Sylvester Harding |
Production date: 1788

print

Title: Ioannes Weselyus |
Museum number: 1902,1011.7630 |
Producer name: Print made by:Johann Jakob HaidPublished by:Johann Jakob Haid |
Production date: 1750s |
Production place: Published in:Augsburg

print; satirical print

Title: Old Cantwell canvassing for Lord Janus. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5761 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas RowlandsonPublished by:William Holland |
Production date: 1788 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Idle 'Prentice Executed at Tyburn Industry and Idleness |
Museum number: 1896,0710.26 |
Producer name: BIOG31785 Print made by:William Hogarth |
Production date: 1747 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Rev.d John Wesley, A.M. |
Museum number: 1915,0508.217 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas Anthony DeanAfter:John Jackson |
Production date: 1820s |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Rt Honble Mr John Wesley, MA |
Museum number: 1902,1011.6525 |
Producer name: Print made by:James WatsonAfter:John Michael Williams |
Production date: 1770-1790 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Rev.d John Wesley A.M. |
Museum number: 1897,0813.16 |
Producer name: Print made by:Robert HancockAfter:James Miller |
Production date: 1790 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Rev.d John Wesley. |
Museum number: 1876,0812.75 |
Producer name: Print made by:Henry Richard CookPublished by:John Bumpus |
Production date: 1823 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The progress of cant. |
Museum number: 1977,U.453 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas HoodPublished by:Thomas McLean |
Production date: 1825 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Fellow 'Prentices at their Looms The Industrious 'Prentice performing the Duty of a |
Museum number: S,2.87-99 |
Producer name: BIOG31785 Print made by:William Hogarth |
Production date: 1747 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Minister preaching to the Seven Devils |
Museum number: 1868,0808.5762 |
Producer name: Print made by:William DentPublished by:J Brown |
Production date: 1788 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Reverend John Wesley, M.A. |
Museum number: 1852,1009.690 |
Producer name: Print made by:James FittlerAfter:William Hamilton |
Production date: mid 19th century |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: John Wesley |
Museum number: 1937,0109.6 |
Producer name: Print made by:Henry Macbeth-RaeburnAfter:Enoch Wood |
Production date: 1934 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)Published in:USA

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: John Wesley, A.M. |
Museum number: 1865,0520.183 |
Producer name: Print made by:William BromleyPublished by:John Sewell |
Production date: 1791 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Rev.d John Wesley and his Friends at Oxford |
Museum number: 2010,7081.5940 |
Producer name: Print made by:Samuel BellinAfter:Marshall C Claxton |
Production date: 1862 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)Published in:Manchester (England)

print

Title: John Wesley, B, 1703- D. 1791 |
Museum number: 1939,0602.7 |
Producer name: After:Frank Owen SalisburyPublished by:Sun Engraving Co |
Production date: 1937

print

Title: The Rev.d John Wesley, A.M. |
Museum number: 1870,1008.2742 |
Producer name: Print made by:James ThompsonAfter:John Jackson |
Production date: 1828 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print; book-illustration

Title: The Idle 'Prentice Executed at Tyburn Industry and Idleness |
Museum number: 1978,U.3479 |
Producer name: After:William HogarthPrint made by:Edwin Smith |
Production date: 1833

print

Title: The Reverend Mr,, John Wesley, AM |
Museum number: 2010,7081.749 |
Producer name: Published by:Carington BowlesAfter:John Michael Williams |
Production date: 1770 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Providential deliverance of John Wesley when a child from Fire |
Museum number: 1886,0410.2 |
Producer name: Print made by:Samuel William Reynolds IIAfter:Henry Perlee Parker |
Production date: 1840 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 1927,0530.2 |
Producer name: BIOG163451 Print made by:James Thompson |
Production date: 1805-1850 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: John Wesley, MA, Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford |
Museum number: 1877,0811.817 |
Producer name: Print made by:John GreenwoodAfter:Nathaniel Hone |
Production date: 1770 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: John Wesley, MA, Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford |
Museum number: 1902,1011.2405 |
Producer name: Print made by:John GreenwoodAfter:Nathaniel Hone |
Production date: 1770 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Rev.d John Wesley A.M. |
Museum number: Q,3.53 |
Producer name: Print made by:John JonesAfter:Lewis Vaslet |
Production date: 1791 |
Production place: Published in:Bath

print

Title: John Wesley |
Museum number: 1927,1008.361 |
Producer name: Print made by:James FittlerAfter:William Hamilton |
Production date: 1788

print; book-illustration

Title: Rev.d John Wesley, AM. |
Museum number: 1874,0613.1561 |
Producer name: After:Sylvester HardingPublished by:George Smeeton |
Production date: 1823

print

Title: [Mr. Westley & Lady Huntingdon] |
Museum number: 1935,0522.13.146 |
Producer name: BIOG33550 Print made by:John Kay |
Production date: 1791

print; satirical print; frontispiece

Title: Wise as serpents |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4582 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1778

print; satirical print

Title: Toothless, he draws the teeth of all his flocks |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4583 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1778

print; satirical print

Title: Fanaticism revived |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4738 |
Producer name: BIOG166504 Print made by:P Cary |
Production date: 1780

print; satirical print; broadside

Title: Dr Rock's Political Speech to the Mob in Covent-Garden |
Museum number: 1860,0623.55 |
Producer name: Published by:George FosterPublished by:George Bickham the Younger |
Production date: 1743 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Wesley's tree - Winchelsea, Sussex |
Museum number: 1871,0812.5262 |
Producer name: BIOG130145 Printed by:C Moody |
Production date: mid 19th century

print

Title: The Rev.d John Wesley, A.M. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.2102 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WardAfter:George Romney |
Production date: 1825 |
Production place: Published in:Bristol (England)

print; broadside; satirical print

Title: Harlequin Methodist |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4351 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1763

print

Title: The Revd John Wesley, Preaching in the Amphitheatre, near Gwennap, Cornwall |
Museum number: 1891,0511.196 |
Producer name: Print made by:William Overend GellerPublished by:Thomas Riley |
Production date: 1845 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Rev.d Jn.o Wesley |
Museum number: 1927,0518.75 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: mid 19th century

print

Title: John Wesley |
Museum number: 1933,0615.2 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1880-1938

print

Title: John Wesley AM. |
Museum number: J,4.285 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas BlandAfter:Nathaniel Hone |
Production date: 1770s

print

Title: Ioannes Wesleyus |
Museum number: Bb,13.267 |
Producer name: Print made by:Johann Jakob HaidAfter:John Michael Williams |
Production date: 1742-1767

print

Title: Rev: J. Wesley, preaching Rev: G. Whitfield' Funer John Wesley |
Museum number: 1980,U.769 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: mid 19th century

print; frontispiece

Title: The Beauties of Methodism |
Museum number: 1896,1230.98 |
Producer name: Published by:Fielding & WalkerPublished by:Scatcherd & Letterman |
Production date: 1785 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Rev.d Mr. John Wesley, M.A. |
Museum number: 1920,0604.42 |
Producer name: Print made by:James WatsonAfter:James Francis Williams |
Production date: 1760-1766 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Wesley |
Museum number: 1912,0612.43 |
Producer name: After:Nathaniel HonePublished by:Berlin Photographic Company |
Production date: 1880-1912 |
Production place: Published in:Berlin (city)

print

Museum number: Q,3.54 |
Producer name: BIOG49682 Print made by:George Vertue |
Production date: 1720s

print

Title: The Death of John Wesley, A.M. |
Museum number: 2010,7081.5865 |
Producer name: Print made by:Samuel BellinAfter:Marshall Claxton |
Production date: 1861-1893

print

Title: Rev.d John Wesley, A.M. |
Museum number: 1919,0415.697 |
Producer name: After:Enoch WoodPublished by:W Dean |
Production date: 1838 |
Production place: Published in:Stoke-upon-Trent

print; album; newspaper/periodical

Title: John Wesley, A.M. |
Museum number: 1940,1007.4.69 |
Producer name: BIOG20979 Print made by:William Bromley |
Production date: 1791

print

Museum number: 1920,1231.91 |
Producer name: BIOG225427 Print made by:Consitt & Goodwill |
Production date: 1800 |
Production place: Published in:Kingston upon Hull

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Reverend John Wesley, M.A. |
Museum number: 1875,0612.542 |
Producer name: BIOG226943 Print made by:P Maguire |
Production date: 1791

print; satirical print

Title: [Lord North as an auctioneer] |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4665 |
Producer name: BIOG130857 Published by:Edward Hedges |
Production date: 1780

print; satirical print; frontispiece

Title: A coat of arms for John Wesley |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4580 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1778

print; satirical print

Title: Reynardo's consecration by the goddess Murcia |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4581 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1778

print; satirical print

Title: Bung Triumphant |
Museum number: Cc,3.196 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1756

print

Title: Providential deliverance of John Wesley when a child from Fire |
Museum number: 1886,0410.3 |
Producer name: Print made by:Samuel William Reynolds IIAfter:Henry Perlee Parker |
Production date: 1840 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: The Rev.d John Wesley, A.M. |
Museum number: 1837,0513.44 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas HollowayPublished by:C Forster |
Production date: 1792 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: John Wesley, MA |
Museum number: 1939,0711.14 |
Producer name: Print made by:James WatsonAfter:Robert Hunter |
Production date: 1773 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Revd Mr John Wesley, MA |
Museum number: 1864,0813.247 |
Producer name: Print made by:AnonymousAfter:Nathaniel Hone |
Production date: 1770 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Revd Mr John Wesley, MA |
Museum number: 1902,1011.7357 |
Producer name: Print made by:AnonymousAfter:Nathaniel Hone |
Production date: 1770 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Revd Mr John Wesley, MA |
Museum number: 1902,1011.7356 |
Producer name: Print made by:AnonymousAfter:Nathaniel Hone |
Production date: 1770 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Museum number: 2010,7081.6042 |
Producer name: Print made by:James ScottAfter:Edward Goodwyn Lewis |
Production date: 1889 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Self murder or the wolf tried and convicted on his own evidence. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.6097 |
Producer name: Print made by:Isaac CruikshankPublished by:S W Fores |
Production date: 1791 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: John Wesley, A.M. |
Museum number: 1868,0328.781 |
Producer name: BIOG181190 Published by:James Macgowan |
Production date: 1833 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: John Wesley M.H. |
Museum number: 1859,0806.10 |
Producer name: Print made by:John Faber the YoungerAfter:John Michael Williams |
Production date: 1743 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Idle 'Prentice Executed at Tyburn Industry and Idleness |
Museum number: 1868,0822.1582 |
Producer name: BIOG31785 Print made by:William Hogarth |
Production date: 1747 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Idle 'Prentice Executed at Tyburn Industry and Idleness |
Museum number: 1880,1113.4586 |
Producer name: BIOG31785 Print made by:William Hogarth |
Production date: 1747 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; popular print

Title: The Tree of Life |
Museum number: 2000,0930.43 |
Producer name: BIOG48405 Published by:George Thompson |
Production date: 30 September 1804 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Iohn Wesley |
Museum number: 1902,1011.7358 |
Producer name: Print made by:AnonymousPublished by:Robert Sayer |
Production date: 1791 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Reverend Iohn Wesley. M. A. |
Museum number: 1893,0411.23 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jonathan SpilsburyAfter:George Romney |
Production date: 1789 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Idle 'Prentice Executed at Tyburn Industry and Idleness |
Museum number: 1991,0126.39.11 |
Producer name: Print made by:William HogarthPrinted by:Bartolomeu Dos Santos |
Production date: 1747 1990

print

Title: John Wesley |
Museum number: 2010,7081.7561 |
Producer name: Print made by:Henry Macbeth-RaeburnAfter:Frank Owen Salisbury |
Production date: 1934 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)Published in:USA

print

Title: John Wesley, MA, Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford |
Museum number: 1856,0712.250 |
Producer name: Print made by:John GreenwoodAfter:Nathaniel Hone |
Production date: 1770 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1880,0110.139-153 |
Producer name: Printed by:W ClowesPublished by:Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington |
Production date: 1879 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Providential deliverance of John Wesley when a child from Fire |
Museum number: 1866,1114.821 |
Producer name: Print made by:Samuel William Reynolds IIAfter:Henry Perlee Parker |
Production date: 1840 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print; book-illustration

Title: The Idle 'Prentice Executed at Tyburn Industry and Idleness |
Museum number: 1873,1213.641 |
Producer name: After:William HogarthPrint made by:Thomas Cook |
Production date: 1833