
ENGRAVING
This page contains information on three distinct research projects relating to copper-plate engravers and engraving in London, with a focus on the eighteenth century.
The first project told the story of five generations of the Basire family copper-plate engravers and latterly lithographers, who were active from 1730 to 1865. They were engravers at various times to the House of Commons, Oxford University Press, the Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries of London. A monograph published in 2016 was followed by three articles in the digital edition of the Vetusta Monumenta of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
In early 2022, I published a follow-on book on the life and works of Charles Grignion (1721-1810), another London-based engraver of French Huguenot origin. Grignion is of interest because of his 60-year career, his contribution to the development of book illustration, and his professional relations with many of the leading figures in contemporary culture, such as Gravelot, Francis Hayman, Hogarth, Horace Walpole, and the major London print- and booksellers.
A third monograph appeared in July 2024. This examines the lives and careers of the French-native engravers who left Paris to work in London from the end of the seventeenth-century to the end of the eighteenth century. It demonstrates how they interacted with the French-speaking community created by recently settled Huguenot artisans and contributed to the transformation and international recognition of a British school of copper-plate engraving.
Links to related published articles by Richard Goddard:
https://scalar.missouri.edu/vm/about-printmaking
https://scalar.missouri.edu/vm/biographical-register
https://scalar.missouri.edu/vm/vol3plates4-5-sedilia
Unpublished resources:
Working chronologies of prints, book and magazine illustrations
Unpublished manuscripts in private hands
From the newsletter of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Salon 379, 7 February 2017, by Julian Pooley, FSA
Review from The Library, volume 18, no. 3, September 2017, pp. 350-352,
by Antony Griffiths
Review from Print Quarterly, XXXV, 2018, 4, pp. 437-439, by Anthony Dyson
Review from the Antiquaries Journal, volume 99, September 2019 , pp. 463-465, by Liam Sims
Charles Grignion, History Engraver (1721-1810). His Life and Works
(Luxembourg, 2022)
https://www.globalacademicpress.com/ebooks/richard_goddard/
Review from the The Huguenot Society Journal, no. 36, 2023, pp. 66-67,
by Tessa Murdoch
'The Genius and Abilities of the greatest
and most rival Nations'. French Engravers in eighteenth-century London (Venezia, 2024)
Link to Epublication ePub.APP