Edward Goodall (1795 - 1870). Engraver. One of the most prolific and highly regarded of Turner's engravers. His first work with Turner consisted of three plates for Picturesque Views of the Southern Coast of England (1814-26), and he had executed more than 80 plates after Turner by the time of the artist's death, in 1851, including eleven for Rogers's Italy and twenty six for Rogers's Poems (see Rawlinson, The Engraved Work of J.M.W. Turner).
Goodall engraved Ruskin 's vignette Amboise for the annual publication Friendship's Offering (1843), 'as carefully as if it had been a Turner', according to Ruskin ( Works, 35.302). Ruskin was particularly appreciative of his skills, and considered that the finest line engraving was 'typically represented by Goodall's illustrations to Rogers's Poems' (Works, 19.149). (For further biographical information see Hunnisett, An Illustrated Dictionary of British Steel Engravers, pp. 40-4l.)