John Anderson (engraver)

The relationship with Bewick ended acrimoniously, however, and by the later 1790s he was working for London printers.

[1] Anderson cut (after drawings by George Samuel)[1] the blocks which illustrate Grove Hill, a 1799 poem by Thomas Maurice.

[2] It was sumptuously issued by Thomas Bensley in 1799, in a book that has been compared with William Somervile's The Chace.

Anderson, with Shakespeare's Walk in the book, almost equals Bewick, according to Ernest Radford writing in the Dictionary of National Biography, and his treatment of foliage is reminiscent of the prints in Robert Bloomfield's Farmer's Boy, where the first edition of 1800 notes "with ornaments engraved by Anderson."

[3] Anderson engraved an 1841 edition of Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne.

Engraving of The Wakes, Selborne, signed by John Anderson, on title page of The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White . Published by Harper and Brothers, New-York, 1841.