James Parker (25)

English engraver (1750–1805). He was a pupil of the first James Basire, having as a fellow-apprentice William Blake. In 1784, he and Blake opened a print-shop in Broad Street, Carnaby Market, but the business failed three years later. Parker's early plates were executed in the stipple style; but he afterwards became an excellent line-engraver, and was much employed upon book illustrations. Parker was a governor of the Society of Engravers established in 1803. He died on 26 May 1805, and was buried in the churchyard of St. Clement Danes, London.