John Horsburgh

John Horsburgh (1791 – 24 September 1869) was a Scottish engraver.

Life

Born at Prestonpans, near Edinburgh, he was left an orphan early, and studied drawing at the Trustees' Academy. At the age of 14 he was apprenticed to Robert Scott the engraver, and worked under him for some years.[1]

In the 1830s he is listed as living at 5 Archibald Place on the south side of Edinburgh.[2]

At the age of about sixty Horsburgh retired from active work, and undertook gratuitously the duties of pastor in the Scottish Baptist church. He died at 16 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, on 24 September 1869.[1]

His son John A. Horsburgh (1835–1924) was also an artist.

Works
Engraving of J. M. W. Turner artwork of the Bell Rock Lighthouse, 1824

Horsburgh engraved plates after J. M. W. Turner, for England and Wales, William Bernard Cooke's Southern Coast of England, and Walter Scott's works, and other publications. He engraved several single plates, including Prince Charlie reading a Despatch, after William Simson, Sir Walter Scott, after Sir Thomas Lawrence, and another portrait of Scott after John Watson Gordon. His pastoral addresses were published with a short memoir prefixed immediately after his death.[1]

gollark: I assume the new current ones are somewhat xenowyrmy, since apparently they came from breeding xenos, have a similar description, and came in the same release.
gollark: I've got entirely release ones now, except for my one free unused slot.
gollark: It would be really impressive if DC was broken enough that he could *accidentally* release a new dragon this way.
gollark: In fact, it's... entirely current ones in every biome?
gollark: Oh wow, TONS of "current" ones around now!

References
  1. Cust 1891.
  2. "Edinburgh Post Office annual directory, 1832-1833". National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cust, Lionel Henry (1891). "Horsburgh, John". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 27. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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