John Goddard (engraver)

John Goddard (fl. 1645–1671) was an early English engraver.^[1] He was apprenticed to the engraver Robert Vaughan in 1631.^[2]

Works

Frontispiece of A Treatise on Fruit-trees (1653) by Ralph Austen, engraving by John Goddard. The picture is emblematic, referring to the enclosed garden of the Song of Solomon, and so to the Church.^[3] At the same time, it shows gardening tools and a planting plan.^[4]

Goddard is known mostly from a few portraits and book illustrations. The portraits include:^[1]

• Martin Billingsley, the writing master, in 1651.
• John Bastwick.
• Alexander Ross, in 1654, as frontispiece to Ross's continuation of Walter Raleigh's History of the World.

He engraved the title-page to William Austin's translation of Cicero's treatise, Cato Major, published in 1671. For Thomas Fuller's Pisgah-sight of Palestine, published in 1645, Goddard engraved the sheet of armorial bearings at the beginning, and some of the maps, including a ground plan of the Temple of Solomon.^[1] He worked also for the arms painter Sylvanus Morgan, and the writing-teachers Richard Gething and Thomas Shelton, and engraved maps for John Ferrar and Peter Heylyn.^[2] Further plates by him are known, including a set of The Seven Deadly Sins.^[1]

Notes

1.  Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds. (1890). "Goddard, John". Dictionary of National Biography. 22. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
2. Worms, Laurence. "Goddard, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/10856. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
3. James Turner, Ralph Austen, an Oxford Horticulturist of the Seventeenth Century, Garden History Vol. 6, No. 2 (Summer, 1978), pp. 39-45, at p. 43. Published by: The Garden History Society. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1586699
4. David L. Jeffrey (January 1992). A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 364. ISBN 978-0-8028-3634-2.

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds. (1890). "Goddard, John". Dictionary of National Biography. 22. London: Smith, Elder & Co.