2-619-143 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Sketch of Oliver Goldsmith, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1769-70. Oliver Goldsmith, Irish writer and physician, (19th century). Irish-born British playwright, dramatist, poet and novelist Goldsmith (1730-1774) is best remembered for the novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), the poem The Deserted Village (1770), and the play She Stoops to Conquer (1773). From The Studio Volume 38 [London Offices of the Studio, London, 1906.]