John Stephenson (fl. c. 1790 - 1836) was a British engraver active in the London nautical chart trade in the late 19th and early 19th century. There is some speculation by Lawrence Worms, Baynton-Williams, and other map scholars, that Stephenson apprenticed with the stationer Charles John Downes. Stephenson engraved for the nautical chart firm of John Hamilton Moore until 1793, when he moved on to the firm of William Heather. Heather's firm was subsequently inherited, along with Stephenson, by John William Noire. Stephenson's characteristic style, involving strong lines, elaborate typographic embellishment, and finely-engraved detail, it is commonly associated with John Noire.
