Mason Jackson

Mason Jackson (25 May 1819 – 28 December 1903) was an English engraver.

Life

Jackson was born at Ovingham, Northumberland in 1819, and was trained as a wood engraver by his brother, John Jackson, the author of a history of this art.

In the middle of the 19th century his engravings for the Art Union of London gave him a considerable reputation, along with Knight’s Shakespeare and other standard books. On the death of Herbert Ingram in 1860 he was appointed art editor of the Illustrated London News, a post he held for thirty years.[1] He wrote a history of the rise and progress of illustrated journalism.[2]

Jackson died in December 1903 and is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London.

Amongst his apprentices was Edmund Morison Wimperis, who became a notable watercolour landscape painter.

References

  1. ↑  Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). "Jackson, Mason". Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement​. 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  2. ↑ Jackson, Mason (1885). The Pictorial Press: Its Origins and Progress. London: Hurst & Blackett Publishers. 363 pages, 150 illustrations
  • Wikisource Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Jackson, Mason". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.


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