Edward Goodall (1795–1870)

Edward Goodall (1795-1870)

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).