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Provenance:
Lot 229, Sworders, Stansted Mountfitchet, UK 16th February 2010.
Thomas Wright was apprenticed to John Rowley in 1707 in the Broders' Company and was freed in 1715. From 1718-1748 he had a workshop at the sign of "The Orrery & Globe" in Fleet Street. He was granted a royal appointment to the Prince of Wales and George II in 1727.