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Jul 5, 2017 · Object details. Chair, hardwood, turned and pierced, with cane seat, made after a design by E. W. Godwin and made in India, possibly Bombay, about 1890. The genesis of the design goes back to 1875 (see Soros, The Secular Furniture of E. W. Godwin [New York, 1999], p. 136). Godwin's design for a related armchair was illustrated in the Building ...
The Architects” Edward W. Godwin. The Bedford Park Society. • The Victorian Web. Edward Edward Godwin [also known as E.W. Godwin] was born in Bristol, England on 26 May 1833 and was the son of William Godwin (c.1794–1846), a partner in Godwin, Smith & Co., a building and decorating firm. After serving his articles with the architect ...
William Godwin. William Godwin was born 3 March 1756 in Cambridgeshire, England, and was educated, beginning in 1773, at Hoxton Academy, a liberal Presbyterian college in London. Though he was trained for a career as a dissenting minister, Godwin remained in that profession for less than four years, preaching in Ware, Stowmarket, and Beaconsfield.
Aug 3, 2012 · Edward William Godwin, 1833-86. The Fine Art Society, London, has most generously given its permission to use information, images, and text from its catalogues in the Victorian Web. This generosity has led to the creation of hundreds and hundreds of the site's most valuable documents on painting, drawing, sculpture, furniture, textiles ...
Godwin, Edward William (1833–86). English architect, designer, and writer, from Bristol, who received his early training under William Armstrong (d. 1858). In 1856 he joined his brother Joseph Lucas Godwin, civil engineer, in the North of Ireland, and designed three RC churches whilst there, all Gothic, and all in Co. Donegal.
PO Box 6374, London, W1A 3UR. e-mail: blairman@blairman.co.uk Telephone: 020 7493 0444 Facsimile: 020 7495 0766 www.blairman.co.uk. By appointment Mayfair, London All works included in the present catalogue are attributed to Edward William Godwin, and the manufacture to the makers indicated.
Jan 16, 2000 · William Godwin (1756–1836) was the founder of philosophical anarchism. In his An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793) he argued that government is a corrupting force in society, perpetuating dependence and ignorance, but that it will be rendered increasingly unnecessary and powerless by the gradual spread of knowledge and the expansion of the human understanding.
