John Pye (1782-1874). Engraver. Although Pye engraved fewer than a dozen plates after Turner (two of them for Rogers's Italy), the outcome of his first association with the artist in 1809 proved to be of great significance, for it marked the beginning of what might be called 'Turner's school of landscape engraving' (see Turner's Engravings). Turner declared himself impressed by the quality of 'luminousness' which Pye was able to achieve by means of a greater delicacy of line and gradation of light than was usual: 'This will do. You can see the lights; had I known that there was a man who could do that, I would have had it done before' ( Rawlinson, The Engraved Work of J.M.W. Turner, pp. xxv-xxvi).