Robert Wallis (1794-1878). Engraver. His first work with Turner consisted of two plates for Picturesque Views of the Southern Coast of England (1814-1826), and he had executed more than 40 plates after Turner by the time of the artist's death in 1851, including six for Rogers's Italy and two for Rogers's Poems. (See Rawlinson, The Engraved Work of J.M. W.Turner). In a letter written in 1841, Ruskin included Wallis in a list of engravers whom he considered to be 'all first-rate'( Works, 2.xlii). However, elsewhere in Modern Painters I Ruskin severely criticises one of Wallis's engravings, insisting that 'it is difficult to conceive how [such a plate] could ever have been presented to the public, as in any way resembling, or possessing even the most fanciful relation [to the original Turner drawing] ( MP I:257). (For further biographical information see Hunnisett, An Illustrated Dictionary of British Steel Engravers, pp. 96-97.)