shortly after the publication of the Essay, and its author was never to have the 

 opportunity to carry out his grandiose plans. 



Jackson appealed to Hollis, who wrote to his former mentor, Dr. John Ward, 

 professor of rhetoric at Gresham College and the head of a society founded by 

 noblemen and gentlemen for the encouragement of learning: " 



Dear Sir!— Do Me the Favour to accept these four prints of Jackson's. They arc 

 no where sold, & will soon be scarce. When You consider their Merit, I am con- 

 fident You will lament the hard Fate of the ingenious Artist; who, at this Time, 

 in his old age, & in his own Country is unprotected unnoticed, and can difBcukly 

 support Himself against immediate distress & Ruin. 

 I am, with great Respect, 



Dear Sir! 



Your obliged affect humble Servant 



T. Hollis 

 Bedford Street, February lo, 1755 



We do not know the results of this appeal. In any case Jackson seems to have 

 faded out as an artist. Litrie is known of his subsee]uent career up to the time more 

 than twenty years later, when Bewick mentions meeting him in advanced age. In 

 1 76 1 he made a drawing of Salisbury Cathedral for Edward Eaton, "bookseller at 

 Sarum," for a line engraving dedicated by Eaton to the Lord Bishop of Win- 

 chester. This large view included figures in the foreground in an attempt to give 

 animation to the scene. Unfortunately the engraver, John Fougeron, was little 

 more than an amateur. His execution was feeble and mechanical : Jackson's draw- 

 ing suffered so badly that its quality cannot be determined. This print was copied 

 on a smaller scale in a steel engraving by J. B. Swaine, published by J. B. Nichols 

 & Son in 1843, but it was hardly an improvement. 



Bewick's recollections of Jackson, written about forty years after their meeting 

 in Newcastle, imply that Jackson stayed in that city for a period. The Town Clerk's 

 Office, however, has no record of his residence. The following passage from 

 Bewick's Memoir is the last evidence '' bearing on Jackson: 



Several impressions from duplicate or triplicate blocks, printed in this way, of a 

 very large size, were also given to me, as well as a drawing of the press from 



■" British Museum Add. mss. 6210. " Bewick, 1925, pp. 213-214. 



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