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**Elizabeth Jackson** (active 1783–1788) was a prominent London print seller and publisher whose short but influential career helped launch the printmaking reputation of Thomas Rowlandson. Operating from premises at 14 Marylebone Street, Golden Square, she ran a wholesale and retail business selling prints, as documented on her surviving trade card. One of several successful women publishers in eighteenth-century London—including Mary Darly and Hannah Humphrey—Jackson focused primarily on non-political subjects, producing caricatures, satires, and illustrative series.)
Her most significant contribution was publishing nearly seventy prints by the young Thomas Rowlandson in the mid-1780s. These included three notable series that advanced his career: *The Rhedarium* (1784), a set of nine prints depicting various carriages; *The Picturesque Beauties of Boswell* (1786), sixteen illustrations after designs by Samuel Collings for James Boswell’s *Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides*; and *Twelve Etchings by T. Rowlandson* (1786), a collection issued in a printed wrapper priced at ten shillings and sixpence. She also published works satirizing artists Richard and Maria Cosway, along with other caricatures, some of which were co-published or later reissued by Thomas Cornell.)
Jackson’s plates were later acquired by the leading printseller S.W. Fores, who reissued many with updated lettering, extending their circulation. Her output is well represented in major collections, including the British Museum (with nearly forty-five prints) and the National Portrait Gallery. Though her own biography remains limited, her role as a publisher of high-quality satirical and illustrative prints places her among the key figures who shaped the vibrant London print market of the 1780s.