Mason Jackson
{{short description|English wood engraver (1819–1903)}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1819|05|25|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Ovingham, Northumberland, England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1903|12|28|1819|05|25|df=y}}
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| resting_place = Brompton Cemetery, London, England
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| occupation = Wood engraver
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Mason Jackson (25 May 1819 – 28 December 1903) was an English wood 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.{{EB1911 |wstitle=Jackson, Mason |volume=15 |page=110 |inline=1}}
In the middle of the 19th century, Jackson's prints for The Art Union gave him a considerable reputation, along with Charles Knight's Shakespeare and other standard books. On the death of Herbert Ingram in 1860, Jackson was appointed art editor of the Illustrated London News, a post he held for thirty years.{{cite DNB12|wstitle=Jackson, Mason|volume=2}} He wrote a history of the rise and progress of illustrated journalism, entitled The Pictorial Press: Its Origins and Progress, published in 1885.{{cite book| first= Mason| last= Jackson| year= 1885| title= The Pictorial Press: Its Origins and Progress| url= https://archive.org/details/pictorialpressi00jackgoog| publisher= Hurst & Blackett Publishers| location= London }} 363 pages, 150 illustrations
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.{{Citation needed|date=April 2021}}
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Mason Jackson}}
- {{Gutenberg author | id=Jackson,+Mason | name=Mason Jackson}}
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=Mason Jackson |sopt=t}}
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Category:People from Berwick-upon-Tweed
Category:British wood engravers
Category:Burials at Brompton Cemetery
Category:British non-fiction writers
Category:English male non-fiction writers
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