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The second edition was much more detailed. Thomas Bewick [] was a printmaker and naturalist who revived the art of wood engraving as a major printing technique.

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A General History Of Quadrupeds by Bewick, Thomas

Previous owner's signature inked on title page of both volumes "Henry Long, " ; cataloging description penciled inside covers by later owner P. I first published in , Vol. This is the last edition seen through the press by Bewick himself, and also the most complete. Wittenborn Art Books Professional seller. Add to shopping cart More information. Bewick and Son, London, Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked. Raised bands and gilt tooling to spine.

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In , when he was financially secure, he married Isabella Elliott from Ovingham; she had been a friend when they were children. They had four children, Robert, Jane, Isabella, and Elizabeth; the daughters worked on their father's memoir after his death. He possessed great personal courage and in his younger years was not slow to repay an insult with personal chastisement. On one occasion, being assaulted by two pitmen on returning from a visit to Cherryburn, he resolutely turned upon the aggressors, and as he said, 'paid them both well'.

Bewick was also noted as having a strong moral sense and was an early campaigner for fair treatment of animals.

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He objected to the docking of horses' tails, the mistreatment of performing animals such as bears, and cruelty to dogs. Above all, he thought war utterly pointless. All these themes recur in his engravings, which echo Hogarth's attention to moral themes. For example, he shows wounded soldiers with wooden legs, back from the wars, and animals with a gallows in the background. Bewick had at least 30 pupils who worked for him and Beilby as apprentices, the first of which was his younger brother John. The partners published their History of Quadrupeds in , [18] intended for children but reaching an adult readership, and its success encouraged them to consider a more serious work of natural history.

Given his detailed knowledge of the birds of Northumberland, Bewick prepared the illustrations, so Beilby was given the task of assembling the text, which he struggled to do. Bewick ended up writing most of the text, [12] which led to a dispute over authorship; Bewick refused to have Beilby named as the author, and in the end only Bewick's name appeared on the title page, along with a paragraph of explanation at the end of the preface. It may be proper to observe, that while one of the editors of this work was engaged in preparing the Engravings, the compilation of the descriptions was undertaken by the other, subject, however, to the corrections of his friend, whose habits led him to a more intimate acquaintance with this branch of Natural History.

Bewick was unable to control his feelings and resolve issues quietly, so the partnership ended, turbulently and expensively, leaving Bewick with his own workshop. With the assistance of his apprentices Bewick brought out the second volume, Water Birds , in , as the sole author. He found the task of managing the printers continually troublesome, but the book met with as much success as the first volume. In April , the American naturalist and bird painter John James Audubon came to Britain to find a suitable printer for his enormous Birds of America.

Bewick, still lively at age 74, showed him the woodcut he was working on, a dog afraid of tree stumps that seem in the dark to be devilish figures, and gave Audubon a copy of his Quadrupeds for his children. Bewick was fond of the music of Northumberland, and of the Northumbrian smallpipes in particular. One of these pupils was Thomas's son, Robert , whose surviving manuscript tunebooks give a picture of a piper's repertoire in the s.


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Bewick's last wood engraving, Waiting for Death , was of an old bony workhorse, standing forlorn by a tree stump, which he had seen and sketched as an apprentice; [27] the work echoes William Hogarth 's last work, The Bathos , which shows the fallen artist by a broken column. He was buried in Ovingham churchyard, beside his wife Isabella, who had died two years earlier, [29] and not far from his parents and his brother John.

Bewick's art is considered the pinnacle of his medium, now called wood engraving. This is due both to his skill and to the method, which unlike the wood cut technique of his predecessors, carves against the grain , in hard box wood , using fine tools normally favoured by metal engravers. Boxwood cut across the end-grain is hard enough for fine engraving, allowing greater detail than in normal woodcutting. This been the dominant method used since Bewick's time. In contrast, a copper plate engraving is inked in the engraved grooves, the face being wiped clean of ink before printing, so much higher pressure is required, and images must be printed separately from the text, at far greater expense.

Bewick made use of his close observation of nature, his remarkable visual memory, and his sharp eyesight to create accurate and extremely small details in his wood engravings, which proved to be both a strength and a weakness. If properly printed and closely examined, his prints could be seen to convey subtle clues to the character of his natural subjects, with humour and feeling.

This was achieved by carefully varying the depth of the engraved grooves to provide actual greys, not only black and white, as well as the pattern of the marks to provide texture. Not surprisingly, this made printing slow and expensive. It also created a problem for Bewick's readers; if they lacked his excellent eyesight, they needed a magnifying glass to study his prints, especially the miniature tail-pieces.


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But the effect was transformative, and wood engraving became the main method of illustrating books for a century. Bewick ran his workshop collaboratively, developing the skills of his apprentices, so while he did not complete every task for every illustration himself, he was always closely involved, as John Rayner explains: Works using his wood engraving technique, for which he became well known, include the engravings for Oliver Goldsmith 's Traveller and The Deserted Village , for Thomas Parnell 's Hermit , and for William Somervile 's Chase.

The tail- or tale-pieces, a Bewick speciality, are small engravings chosen to fill gaps such as those at the ends of the species articles in British Birds , each bird's description beginning on a new page. The images are full of life and movement, often with a moral, sometimes with humour, always with sympathy and precise observation, so the images tell a tale as well as being at the tail ends of articles.

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The runaway cart is a wonderful mixture of action and danger. The boys have been playing in the cart and the horse has bolted; perhaps the dog's barking was the cause. One boy has already fallen and probably hurt himself. The others hang on shouting with fear. And why has it all happened? The carter with his tankard in his hand runs too late from the inn.