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 Chatto.[3]
References
- ^ Cundall, Joseph (1895). A Brief History of Wood-engraving from Its Invention. London: Low, Marston, & Co. pp. 122–123. http://books.google.com/books?id=hZQMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA122.
- ^ "JACKSON, JOHN (1801-1848)". Dictionary of national biography: index and epitome, 2nd edn. (Smith, Elder, & Co.). 1906. http://books.google.com/books?id=UTcTAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA677.
- ^ Jackson, John; Chatto, William Andrew (1839). A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical. London: Charles Knight and Co. http://books.google.com/books?id=jfVAAAAAcAAJ.
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