John Wykeham Archer

John Wykeham Archer (1808 – 25 May 1864) was a British artist, engraver and writer.

Life St John's Gate, Clerkenwell, a watercolour by John Wykeham Archer (British Museum). Archer was born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in 1808. In 1820 he went to London, and became a pupil of John Scott, a noted engraver of animals. Archer also made a series of drawings for the Duke of Northumberland, showing places on his estate.

Archer was the author of Vestiges of Old London, a large quarto volume, illustrated with etchings; and of a series of articles in Douglas Jerrold's Magazine, entitled "The Recreations of Mr. Zigzag the Elder", and was buried on the western side of Highgate Cemetery. His grave (no.129110) no longer has a readable inscription on the headstone.