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  • Hull, 17th November, 1866 : Dear gentlemen, in answer to your advertisement, I beg to offer myself as a candidate for the office of Veterinary Surgeon to your honourable Board ... / T.B. Wright.
  • Hull, 17th November, 1866 : Dear gentlemen, in answer to your advertisement, I beg to offer myself as a candidate for the office of Veterinary Surgeon to your honourable Board ... / T.B. Wright.
  • A "spae wife" (fortune-teller). Engraving by J.A. Wright after T. Stothard.
  • John Whitehurst. Line engraving by A. Smith, 1788, after J. Wright of Derby.
  • Women looking at a vision in a magic mirror. Engraving by E.J. Portbury after J. Masey Wright.
  • A man is playing a violin to a accompany a group of girls singing. Engraving by J. Goodyear after J.M. Wright.
  • A philosopher giving an astronomical lecture on an orrery. Mezzotint by W. Pether after J. Wright, ca. 1780.
  • Three gentlemen observing a statuette of the Borghese warrior. Mezzotint by W. Pether, 1769, after J. Wright of Derby.
  • A potter at work, with all the various utensils made surrounding him. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Wright after A.W. Devis.
  • An alchemist in his study, discovering phosphorus; a young man and a boy in the background. Mezzotint by W. Pether, 1775, after J. Wright of Derby, 1771.
  • Two men sing from a songbook they are both holding, while a younger man has fallen asleep at the table; a young woman looks on. Engraving by T.E. Nicholson after J.M. Wright.
  • An experiment on a bird in an air pump: a philosopher is demonstrating the formation of a vacuum by withdrawing air from a flask containing a white cockatoo. Mezzotint by V. Green, 1769, after J. Wright of Derby.
  • An experiment on a bird in an air pump: a philosopher is demonstrating the formation of a vacuum by withdrawing air from a flask containing a white cockatoo. Mezzotint by V. Green, 1769, after J. Wright of Derby.
  • Memorials of Cambridge: a series of views of the colleges, halls, and public buildings / engraved by J. Le Keux; with historical and descriptive accounts by Thomas Wright ... and the Rev. H. Longueville Jones.
  • Commonwealth of Massachusetts : By His Excellency, Henry J. Gardner, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, a proclamation for a day of public thanksgiving and praise ... Thursday, the twenty-ninth day of November next ... Given at the Council chamber, in Boston, this twenty-third day of October ... one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five ... / Henry J. Gardner, governor, with the advice of the Council ; Ephraim M. Wright, secretary.
  • William of Orange attacks Louis XIV and James II, who are riding on an ass; Father Petre, confessor to the queen of England, rides on a lobster with the infant Old Pretender; Cardinal Faustenburg falls off a tortoise. Mezzotint by P. Schenck, c. 1689.
  • Richard Wright (1730-1814), surgeon of Derby. Oil painting by Joseph Wright of Derby, ca. 1753.
  • Richard Wright (1730-1814), surgeon of Derby. Oil painting by Joseph Wright of Derby, ca. 1753.
  • Richard Wright (1730-1814), surgeon of Derby. Oil painting by Joseph Wright of Derby, ca. 1753.
  • Florence Nightingale as the lady with the lamp. Oil painting attributed to J. Butterworth.
  • Panama City: the school of medicine subsequently converted into the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory. Photograph, ca. 1928.
  • Barber surgeons operating. Oil painting after E. van Heemskerck.
  • Barber surgeons operating. Oil painting after E. van Heemskerck.
  • A physician (William Cullen?) taking the pulse of a gouty bachelor as he receives a paternity claim. Oil painting formerly attributed to John Kay.
  • A physician (William Cullen?) taking the pulse of a gouty bachelor as he receives a paternity claim. Oil painting formerly attributed to John Kay.
  • Queen's Royal Volunteer Battalion.
  • Saint George's Hospital, Hyde Park Corner, London. Oil painting.
  • Thomas Vicary. Oil painting.
  • Saint George's Hospital, Hyde Park Corner, London. Oil painting.
  • The Hon. Robert Boyle, experimental philosopher. Oil painting.