John Jackson (engraver)

John Jackson (1801-1848) was an English engraver.

Jackson was born at Ovingham, Northumberland in 1801, and was apprenticed to the wood engraver Thomas Bewick. After a quarrel with his master, Jackson went to London and worked for the wood engraver William Harvey.[1]

Jackson made engravings for Northcote's Fables and illustrations in Penny Magazine.[2] In the early 1830s he taught wood engraving to his younger brother Mason Jackson. In 1839 he provided over 300 engravings for an illustrated history of wood-engraving with text written by William Andrew Chatto.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Cundall, Joseph (1895). A Brief History of Wood-engraving from Its Invention. London: Low, Marston, & Co. pp. 122–123.
  2. ↑  Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892). "Jackson, John (1801-1848)". Dictionary of National Biography 29. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  3. ↑ Jackson, John; Chatto, William Andrew (1839). A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical. London: Charles Knight and Co.

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