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unusual facts about Joseph Wright


Gothic verbs

In some cases a past participle is given without a gloss; this omission goes back to the source (Joseph Wright's Grammar of the Gothic Language) used to compile the table.


An Experiment with an Air Pump

An Experiment with an Air Pump is a play by British playwright Shelagh Stephenson inspired by the painting An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump by Joseph Wright.

Grundriß der vergleichenden Grammatik der indogermanischen Sprachen

The volumes of the first edition were translated into English by Joseph Wright (Volume I), Robert S. Conway and William H. D. Rouse (Volume II and the Indices) shortly after their appearance.

John Hamilton Mortimer

During this time he became a friend of Joseph Wright, a fellow student at the Academy - a friendship which would endure throughout Mortimer's life.

Patience Wright

Patience Wright's son Joseph Wright (1756–1793) was a well-known portrait painter who designed Liberty Cap Cent.

Simplified Spelling Board

In response to mounting criticism from British newspapers, the board announced the additions of James Murray, the Scottish lexicographer and primary editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, along with Joseph Wright, an Oxford University professor of comparative philology and editor of the English Dialect Dictionary.


see also

James Holworthy

a niece of Joseph Wright of Derby in Derby, and retired to the Brookfield estate, near Hathersage in Derbyshire, which he had purchased.

Little Dracula

It was penned by award-winning writer Martin Waddell and illustrated by Joseph Wright; although, a joke book was written by Alan Durant with illustration by Paul Tempest.

Marcus Joseph Wright

Marcus Joseph Wright (June 5, 1831 – December 27, 1922) was a lawyer, author, and a Confederate general in the American Civil War.

Fort Wright was Tennessee's first military training camp in the Civil War and is named after Marcus Joseph Wright.

The Captive King

The sketch by Joseph Wright contains annotations by his friend Peter Perez Burdett.

The Origin of Painting

Joseph Wright depicted a theme suggested to him by the myth described in William Hayley's poem "An Essay on Painting", in which a woman sketched around the outline of the shadow cast by her departing lover in lamp light against a wall... "Inspired by love, the soft Corinthian maid, Her graceful lover's sleeping form portray'd..." (William Hayley 1778).