Engravings from Oliver Goldsmith’s History of the Earth and Animated Nature (1825)

Dec 27, 2012



"Beautiful and appropriate" engravings for Oliver Goldsmith's History of the Earth and Animated Nature (1825). Goldsmith (1730-1774) was an Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield, his pastoral poem The Deserted Village, and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man and She Stoops to Conquer. He is also thought to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes, the source of the phrase "goody two-shoes". Along with Joshua Reynolds and Samuel Johnson he was a founding member of "The Club" in 1764, a London dining club who would meet weekly bringing together the leading lights of the city's artist and literary scene.