page_title: John Goddard (engraver)
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: John Goddard (engraver) / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: Frontispiece of A Treatise on Fruit-trees (1653) by Ralph Austen.
context_page_description: John Goddard was an early English engraver. He was apprenticed to the engraver Robert Vaughan in 1631.
context_section_description: Goddard is known mostly from a few portraits and book illustrations. The portraits include:
  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. 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. Further plates by him are known, including a set of The Seven Deadly Sins.
caption: 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]
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