The Balcony; and The Sluice Pencil and watercolour heightened with white The Balcony - 25 x 16.5 cm. The Sluice – 25 x 13 cm Goodall’s earliest subjects were rural genre scenes and landscapes, many derived from sketching trips made between 1838 and 1857 in Normandy, Brittany, Wales, Ireland, Scotland and Venice. A turning point in his career was a visit to Egypt in 1858, which became a source of many important works over the following years.