John Thurston (1774–1822) was a British printmaker and illustrator.
Thurston began his artistic career as a copper plate engraver, working for James Heath.
Most of his illustrations were engraved on block, not plate; a writer in the Polytechnic Journal was later to describe him as "at that time the principal, and indeed almost only artist of any talent in London who made drawings on the block for wood engravers".
[1] His illustrations include those for James Thomson's Seasons and William Somervile's Rural Sports, as well as Shakespeare's works.
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