John Jackson (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 wood-engravings for Northcote's Fables and illustrations for the Penny Magazine.

[2] In the early 1830s he taught wood-engraving to his younger brother Mason Jackson.

In 1839 he provided over 300 prints for an illustrated history of wood-engraving with text written by William Andrew Chatto.