View of Hillbank on the River Thames near London

About the Artist

Francis Jukes · 1745–1812

Francis Jukes was born in 1745 in Martley, Worcestershire, and became one of England’s most prolific engravers and publishers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He began his career as a topographical painter before turning to etching and line engraving. He then mastered aquatint, a tonal printmaking process he learnt from the watercolourist Paul Sandby, becoming one of the earl...