Engraver, based in
London.
Goodall specialized in landscape, and he was closely associated with
J. M. W. Turner.
Important projects included the vignettes after
Turner for
Samuel Rogersʼs
Italy (
1830)
and for
Rogersʼs
Poems (
1834). In those books,
Goodallʼs landscape engravings complemented
William Findenʼs figure engravings after subjects by
Thomas Stothard.
Other collaborations with
Turner using steel engraving included the vignettes for the
Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell
(
Hunnisett, Steel‐Engraved Book Illustration in England,
101–2;
Piggott, Turnerʼs Vignettes, 62–65).
Given
Goodallʼs close association with
Turner,
Ruskin must have been excited
that his first commission for a published ekphrastic poem,
“Saltzburg”,
was based on a plate by this master of steel engraving.
Ruskinʼs ekphrastic technique in this poem was influenced
by the vignettes after
Turner for
Rogersʼs
Italy
(see
Hanson, “Ruskin in the 1830s”, 143–45).