| [57]Conversation piece. Three of Mr. Bradshaw’s children with a pet lamb | |
| Port. of Mr. Woodville | full-length |
| „ Mrs. Woodville | do. |
| „ Dr. Wilson | half-length |
| „ Miss Macauley |
| Subject. | Style. | Engraver. | |
| 1 | Two Boys with a Bladder | Aquatint. | J. P. Burdett. |
| 2 | Master Bradshaw and two Miss Bradshaws with a Pet Lamb[58] | Mezzotint. | Valentine Green. |
| 3 | Count Miravan, a young nobleman of Syria, who having extravagantly lavished away his fortune, breaks open the tomb of his ancestors, expecting to find great treasure | Ditto. | Ditto. |
| 4 | A philosopher giving a Lecture on the Orrery.[59] The following names are copied from the margin of a print of the Orrery, written in the year 1768, and are believed to be the persons represented:—J. Wright, Mr. Burdett taking notes, young Cantrell, A. Winterman, Mr. G. Snowden, Mr. Denby as the philosopher | Ditto. | Ditto. |
| 5 | A Philosopher giving a Lecture on the Air Pump, in which are introduced portraits similar to above[60] | Ditto. | Ditto. |
| 6 | “The Gladiator.” Mr. Wright in this picture has introduced himself in profile, and he and the other two figures (Burdett and old John Wilson of the Devonshire Almshouses), are comparing the drawing he has made with the Statue | Ditto. | W. Pether. |
| 7 | Democritus found studying Anatomy | Ditto. | Ditto. |
| 8 | An Alchymist[59] | Ditto. | Ditto. |
| 9 | A Farrier’s Shop | Ditto. | Ditto. |
| 10 | Master Ashton (with Dog) | Ditto. | Ditto. |
| 11 | A Drawing Academy | Ditto. | Ditto. |
| 12 | A Drawing Academy, 8vo. | Outline. | Normand. |
| 13 | A Blacksmith’s Shop | Mezzotint | Richard Earlom. |
| 14 | An Iron Forge | Ditto. | Ditto. |
| 15 | John Harrison, Esq., Surgeon, Derby | Ditto. | J. R. Smith. |
| 16 | Edwin, the Minstrel (portrait of Thomas Haden, Esq.) | Ditto. | Ditto. |
| 17 | Ditto. | Etching. | F. Seymour Haden. |
| 18 | Three Children of Walter Synnott, Esq. (with Birdcage) | Mezzotint. | J. R. Smith. |
| 19 | William and Margaret, taken from an Old Ballad | Ditto. | Ditto. |
| 20 | The Indian Widow | Ditto. | Ditto. |
| 21 | The Lady in Milton’s Comus | Mezzotint. | J. R. Smith. |
| 22 | Dr. Darwin, with pen in right hand. (“An alteration in the Face and Wig from the Original, and for the worse”) | Ditto. | Ditto. |
| 23 | Ditto, with hands resting on a polished table[61] | Line. | J. T. Wedgwood. |
| 24 | “The Captive,” from Sterne’s Sentimental Journey | Dotted. | Ryder. |
| 25 | “The Captive,” from Sterne. Engraved for Mr. Milnes, of Wakefield: who destroyed the plate when twenty impressions had been taken off | Mezzotint. | J. R. Smith. |
| 26 | Distant View of Vesuvius, from shore of Posilipo | Line. | Wm. Byrne. |
| 27 | “The Dead Soldier” | Line. | J. Heath. |
| 28 | Ditto, same size as above, but a much inferior print | Mezzotint. | W. Dickinson. |
| 29 | “The Dead Soldier,” small | Line. | Bovinet. |
| 30 | Prospero entertaining Ferdinand and Miranda with Spectacle. From the “Tempest.” For Boydell’s Shakspeare Gallery | Line & Stipple. | Thew. |
| 31 | The Storm, Antigonus pursued by the Bear. From the “Winter’s Tale.” For Boydell’s Shakspeare Gallery | Line. | Middiman. |
| 32 | John Whitehurst, F.R.S., of Derby, “an elegant Engraving, and very like.” 8vo. in oval (another in oval on a pedestal) | Line. | J. Hall. |
| 33 | Sir Richard Arkwright, Kt. | Mezzotint. | J. R. Smith. |
| 34 | Sir Richard Arkwright, Kt., small (various) | Line. | A. R. Meyer & others. |
| 35 | Dr. Wilson. (Drawn by T. Lawrence) | J. & C. Sherwin. | |
| 36 | Miss Kitty Dressing. Published February, 1781 | Mezzotint. | J. Watson. |
| 37 | Portrait of Himself, wearing a hat | Ditto. | Ward. |
| 38 | Ditto, ditto | Line. | M. V. Sears. |
| 39 | Jedediah Strutt, Esq. (various) | Line & Stipple. | Meyer. |
| 40 | Rev. Thomas Seward | Line. | Cromer. |
| 41 | Fireworks from the Castle of St. Angelo, Rome, 8vo. | Line. | Radcliffe. |
| 42 | “Maria,” from Sterne’s “Sentimental Journey” | Mezzotint. | John Raphael Smith. |
| 43 | Thos. Day | Line & Stipple. | Meyer. |
| 44 | Moonlight View in Italy. Size of plate 21 × 16½ | Aquatint. | Fras. Eginton, 1781. |
| 45 | The Twins (plate in this volume) | Etching. | F. Seymour Haden. |
| 46 | Miss Wrights. Two Girls with a Pet Lamb | Mezzotint. | S. Paul. |
There are several other Minor Prints after him. Also two very fine Mezzo Prints, scarce, 2 ft. 6½ in. × 2 ft. 2 in. of a Boy and a Girl with a Bladder, and Two Girls with a Lighted Stick, with the name of W. Tate, pinxit (a friend of Wright’s), which is evidently an error, as it is known that Wright did paint these two pictures, and it is presumed that Mr. Tate had them engraved, hence the error.
A Portrait of the artist, engraved by Blake, was used as a frontispiece to J. Leigh Philips’ article on Wright, in the “Monthly Magazine,” of Sept. 1797. Blake engraved his plate from an etching by Wright himself, and of which only one copy is now known to exist.
Note.—The celebrated Engraving, “The Fishery,” engraved by Woollett, often ascribed as after “Wright, of Derby,” was painted by a Richard Wright, of Liverpool.
It is interesting to know at what prices the fine Mezzotint Prints were published, and the following list is copied from a bill for Prints, receipted by W. Pether:—
£ s. d. Gladiator 0 15 0 Orrery 1 1 0 Air Pump 0 15 0 Academy 0 15 0 Farrier’s Shop 0 10 6 Master Ashton 0 6 0 Miravin 0 10 6 Blacksmith’s Shop 0 15 0 Hermit 0 15 0 Alchymist 1 1 0 £7 4 0 “Recd May 1st 1778, of John Milnes, Esqr., by Mr. Wright, the above sum, in full of all demands.”
By WM PETHER.
£7 4 0.