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Godefroy, François, 1743?-1819

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  • Boston, Massachusetts: John Malcolm, a customs official, is lowered by ropes from his house on to a cart and tarred and feathered by a crowd protesting against taxation. Engraving by F. Godefroy, 1784.
  • A group of three 'puffers' (uninitiated alchemists) reading books, and a credulous peasant trying his luck at alchemy, his weeping wife and miserable child trying to detain him from alchemical pursuit. Engraving by F. Godefroy after J. Steen.
  • Tripoli, Lebanon: a monastery by a river in the countryside near the city of Tripoli. Engraving by F. Godefroy after L.F. Cassas.
  • Shepherds and shepherdesses with sheep in countryside by a river. Etching by J. Desaulx and F. Godefroy, ca. 180-, after P.P. Rubens.
  • A group of three 'puffers' (uninitiated alchemists) reading books, and a credulous peasant trying his luck at alchemy, his weeping wife and miserable child trying to detain him from alchemical pursuit. Engraving by F. Godefroy after J. Steen.
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    A group of three 'puffers' (uninitiated alchemists) reading books, and a credulous peasant trying his luck at alchemy, his weeping wife and miserable child trying to detain him from alchemical pursuit. Engraving by F. Godefroy after J. Steen.

    Steen, Jan, 1626-1679. | Reference: 35486i
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    Tripoli, Lebanon: a monastery by a river in the countryside near the city of Tripoli. Engraving by F. Godefroy after L.F. Cassas.

    Cassas, Louis François, 1756-1827. | Date: [germinal an. VI [1798]] | Reference: 2851384i
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    Boston, Massachusetts: John Malcolm, a customs official, is lowered by ropes from his house on to a cart and tarred and feathered by a crowd protesting against taxation. Engraving by F. Godefroy, 1784.

    Godefroy, François, 1743?-1819 | Date: [1794] | Reference: 43311i
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    Shepherds and shepherdesses with sheep in countryside by a river. Etching by J. Desaulx and F. Godefroy, ca. 180-, after P.P. Rubens.

    Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640. | Date: [between 1800 and 1809?] | Reference: 2027436i
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    The snake in the grass: an idyll in which a shepherdess and a young man make love is disturbed by the approach of a snake. Engraving by F. Godefroy, 1781, after J. B. Huet.

    Huet, Jean-Baptiste, 1745-1811. | Date: 1781 | Reference: 2475522i
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