Print
date: label: date made
content: 18th century
notes: label: Description
content: Etched image showing five people (two gentlefolk, and three workers) in a large room containing various vessels and kilns. The inked caption in the bottom corner (not original with the print) reads "Godfrey and Cooks - Laboratory - Southampton Street."
label: Description
content: Ambrose Godfrey-Hankwitz (1660-1741) was a German scientist who went to England, worked with Robert Boyle, and became a prosperous phosphorous manufacturer and Fellow of the Royal Society. His pharmacy on Southampton Street, London, opened in 1707, remained in family hands for several generations, and was, allegedly, one of the best equipped laboratories in England. In the late 1790s, Ambrose Towers Godfrey formed a partnership with Charles Cooke, and that firm continued at this location until 1863.
label: Description
content: Our image is one of three that, although lacking inscriptions or signatures, have long been associated with Godfrey’s laboratory. It might have been created by the English engraver William Henry Toms (1700-1765), or by Hubert-Francois Gravelot (1699-1773), a French engraver who emigrated to London in 1732.
label: Description
content: Ref: R. E. W. Maddison, “Studies in the Life of Robert Boyle, F.R.S. Part V: Boyle’s Operator, Ambrose Godfrey-Hankwitz, F.R.S.,” <i>Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London</i> 11 (1955): 159-188.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London, City of London
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.330531
label: catalog number
content: 330531
label: accession number
content: 295423
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 13 7/8 in; 27.94 cm x 35.2425 cm