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

Works

Goddard is known mostly from a few portraits and book illustrations. The portraits include: * Martin Billingsley, the writing master, in 1651. *

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. * Alexander Ross, in 1654, as frontispiece to Ross's continuation of

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's ''History of the World''. He engraved the title-page to William Austin's translation of

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's treatise, ''Cato Major'', published in 1671. For

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'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

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. He worked also for the arms painter

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, and the writing-teachers

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and Thomas Shelton, and engraved maps for

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and

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. Further plates by him are known, including a set of ''The Seven Deadly Sins''.

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;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Goddard, John English engravers 17th-century English artists Year of birth missing Year of death missing