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Hyde Park, near Kensington Palace: ladies and children drinking from a spring and eating a picnic. Engraving by J. Godby, 1802, after Mary Spilsbury.

Saint Jerome. Stipple engraving by J. Godby after G.B. Cipriani.

Women washing clothes at the wash-house at Torre del Greco, near Naples. Coloured etching by J. Godby, 1806, after P. van Lerberghi.

John Locke. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Godby after G. B. Cipriani.

Edward Snape. Stipple engraving by J. Godby, 1791, after W. Whitby.

A girl stroking a puppy, and being nudged with affection by the puppy's mother. Stipple engraving by J. Godby, 1799, after G. Testolini after W. Miller.

A mermaid, situated on a rock. Etching by J. Godby, 1814, after L. Gahagan.

Sir Lucas Pepys. Stipple engraving by J. Godby, 1809, after H. Edridge.

Christ raising the widow's son. Stipple engraving by J. Godby after R. Smirke, 1808.

Sir William Herschel. Stipple engraving by J. Godby, 1814, after F. Rehberg, 1814.

William Harvey and Cosimo III de' Medici. Stipple engraving, 1815, by J. Godby after G. B. Cipriani.

Sir William Herschel: a reproduction of his portrait by J. Godby after F. Rehberg, 1814, on a poster advertising an exhibition of scientific and medical portraits. Colour lithograph, 2000.

Heads of figures in Raphael's painting of the Transfiguration of Christ. Stipple engravings by J. Godby after I.L. Goubaud after Raphael.

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Works from the collections

Christ raising the widow's son. Stipple engraving by J. Godby after R. Smirke, 1808.

Edward Snape. Stipple engraving by J. Godby, 1791, after W. Whitby.

Sir William Herschel: a reproduction of his portrait by J. Godby after F. Rehberg, 1814, on a poster advertising an exhibition of scientific and medical portraits. Colour lithograph, 2000.

Heads of figures in Raphael's painting of the Transfiguration of Christ. Stipple engravings by J. Godby after I.L. Goubaud after Raphael.

Sir William Herschel. Stipple engraving by J. Godby, 1814, after F. Rehberg, 1814.

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