JOHN, Associate Engraver of the Royal Academy, was born at Lincoln in 1768. His engravings for Bowyer's History of England and other works first brought him into notice, and he gained a considerable reputation from a course of lectures on engraving, delivered before the Royal Institution in 1806. These were afterwards published. After having accepted the appointment of Associate Engraver of the Academy in the hope of being elevated to the full privileges of membership, he found that his hopes were vain, and devoted himself more steadily to literary aims in connection with his profession. Two art periodicals, started under his management, ultimately proved failures, the second being swamped by the Art-Union Journal. His Sabaean Researches (1823) were published in continuation of lectures on engraved hieroglyphics, delivered at the Royal Institution. In 1834 he published his Descriptive, Explanatory, and Critical Catalogue of the Earliest Pictures in the National Gallery, a work full of amusing gossip, although not free from blunders, and certainly destitute of any claim to be regarded as an authority in matters of art criticism. He is perhaps best known as the engraver of Dogs of Mount St Bernard, painted by his son, Sir Edwin Landseer. He died in 1852, leaving two sons, Thomas and Charles, besides the painter already mentioned.

LAND'S END (the ancient Bolerium), a granite crag, the most westerly point in Cornwall, England; N. Lat. 50. 4. W. Long. 5. 44.; 266 miles S.W. from London. About a mile W. is the lighthouse of Longships, having a fixed light 88 feet above high water.