Jane Ramsay Pomeroy

Jane Pomeroy died November 27, 2020. As an independent scholar, Pomeroy dedicated herself to researching and collecting the work of Alexander Anderson, the first engraver on wood in America. The resulting three-volume work, Alexander Anderson (1775–1870): Wood Engraver and Illustrator, an Annotated Bibliography, was copublished by Oak Knoll Press and the American Antiquarian Society in association with the New York Public Library in 2005. Pomeroy went on to publish two more key sources on Anderson: Alexander Anderson’s New York City Diary (1793–1799) (2014) and Alexander Anderson’s America (2019), the latter serving as the catalog for a Grolier Club exhibition drawn from her private collection of Anderson engravings. Pomeroy was also an amateur printer; the 2019 volume was published by her Burntcoat Press.