1801. Copper-line engraving. 1801. 165mm by 110mm (image only). 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.....