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Last Name Wigley

Given Name James

alt. Names J. W. ; J. Wigley ;

Marriage

Children

Year born 1720

Year died 1782

Place of death

Father's occupation clothworker / taylor Edward Wigley

Relatives

Education Apprenticed (Merchant Taylors) to John Williams 1715

Country of Activity United Kingdom

Worked for George Adams SR. (1720-1733), George Adams JR. (1750-1795) ;

Patronage

Collaborators Apprentices: John Mitchell 1721 ; Josephus Binley 1727 ; Charles Sherborn 1731; John Woodifield 1734 ; Robert Jennings 1740 ; Edward Warner 1741 ; William Forster 1742 ; James Hyde 1746 ; Henry Dawkins 1749 (£10.10s) ; Barak Longmate (1) 1752 (£10) ; Richard Ryder 1756 ; Philip Bryant 1759 ; William Faden 1764 (£25) ; Henry Humphreys 1766 ; Samuel Sanders 1773 ;

Techniques natural and zoological engraving

Sample(s) http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/156085#page/9/mode/1up

Archival sources http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?bioId=16700

Published sources Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ## 23f. ;

other Known for trade-cards, advertises "James Wigley Engraver in Poppings-Court, Fleet-Street, near Fleet-Bridge, London."

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