Thomas Ross & Son
| Founded | June 21, 1833 (as Dixon & Ross) |
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| Headquarters | 4 St James's Place, Hampstead Road (1833–64) [street renamed in 1864] 70 Hampstead Road (1864–1966) Hounslow West (temporarily during WW2) Manfred Road, Putney (from 1966) |
| Products | Fine Art Prints |
| Website | thomasross |
Thomas Ross & Son, also known as Ross's, is an English fine art printers, founded in 1833 in London.
The privately held company is a publisher of fine art prints and a specialist in intaglio printmaking, with a significant archive collection dating back to 1700, including old master prints, totalling circa 10,000 images. The company is particularly known for traditional printmaking by hand, and watercolour by hand. They publish editions of historical engravings, etchings (including aquatints) and mezzotints from copper plates.
The company was founded as Dixon & Ross in 1833 by father John Dixon, and son Henry Dixon, formerly of Dixon & Son (1805–1833), along with William Ross. The Dixons eventually left the company, which passed to William Ross's relative Thomas Ross (16 August 1808 – 15 December 1886). By 1876 the company was renamed after Thomas Ross. Thomas Ross' son (Thomas Ross Junior (1833 – 13 December 1907)) joined the company, leading it to be renamed in 1886 as Thomas Ross & Son.
″What you really ought to do is to pay a visit to a proper engraver's printer, such as Messrs Ross and Son, of 70, Hampstead Road.″ – Percy H. Martindale (1869–1943), Engraving Old and Modern (1928)
Praised by the jury of the Exposition Universelle (1855) in Paris, alongside only two other British printing companies, both would later be acquired by Thomas Ross & Son.