Joseph Wilson Lowry was an English engraver.

He was the son of Wilson Lowry

Wilson Lowry

Wilson Lowry FRS was an English engraver. He was born at Whitehaven, Cumberland, the son of Strickland Lowry, a portrait painter. The family settled in Worcester, and Wilson Lowry, as a boy, left home to work as a house painter in London and Arundel, Sussex...

 and his second wife Rebecca Delvalle and was born on 7 October 1803. He was trained by his father and from both parents inherited a taste for science and mathematics; in his work he specialised in scientific subjects. He died, unmarried, at his residence, Robert Street, Hampstead Road, London, on 15 June 1879.
He engraved plates for the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana

Encyclopaedia Metropolitana

The Encyclopædia Metropolitana was an encyclopedic work published in London, from 1817 to 1845, by part publication. In all it came to quarto, 30 vols., having been issued in 59 parts .-Origins:...

and for Sir John Rennie a series of drawings for London Bridge. Other work included John Phillips

John Phillips (geologist)

John Phillips FRS was an English geologist.- Life and work :Philips was born at Marden in Wiltshire...

's Geology of Yorkshire, 1835 and Scott Russell's Naval Architecture, 1865, John Weale

John Weale

John Weale was an English publisher of popular scientific, architectural, engineering and educational works.-Life:He went into the trade first with George Priestley in St Giles-in-the-Fields who died around 1812, and worked then with Priestley's widow. He took a particular interest in the study of...

's 'Scientific Series' and the journals of the Institution of Naval Architects and the Royal Geographical Society

Royal Geographical Society

The Royal Geographical Society is a British learned society founded in 1830 for the advancement of geographical sciences...

. He later was appointed engraver to the Geological Survey of Great Britain and Ireland.