Gateshead Monastery, Durham - Original Engraving by R. Godfrey - 1774
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Original copper engraving of Gateshead monastery ("Goatshead, or, Gateshide"), County Durham, the ruined church silhouetted against the horizon with two sportsmen in the foreground. Signed "Godfrey sc." and published in London by Samuel Hooper in August 1774.
Original copper engraving of Gateshead monastery ("Goatshead, or, Gateshide"), County Durham, the ruined church silhouetted against the horizon with two sportsmen in the foreground. Signed "Godfrey sc." and published in London by Samuel Hooper in August 1774.
Richard Bernard Godfrey (1728 - c. 1795) was one of the principal engravers of Francis Grose's Antiquities of England and Wales, the great survey of British ruins and castles that Hooper was publishing in those same years. A book engraving, with letterpress on the reverse.
Medium: Copper engraving
Engraver: Richard Godfrey
Date: August 1774
Source: Published by Samuel Hooper, London
Dimensions: 6.8 x 5.4 in (17.3 x 13.7 cm)
Condition: Good. Clean paper with good margins, with printed letterpress on the reverse.
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Original copper engraving of Gateshead monastery ("Goatshead, or, Gateshide"), County Durham, the ruined church silhouetted against the horizon with two sportsmen in the foreground. Signed "Godfrey sc." and published in London by Samuel Hooper in August 1774.