Oliver Goldsmith

Facsimile signature below the image and engraving titled 'Canonbury Tower, Islington, Middlesex, Formerley the Residence of Oliver Goldsmith' at bottom of sheet. Oliver Goldsmith (1730 - 1774) was an Anglo-Irish writer and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773). Faint spotting. Printing crease top left.