Bewick Scrapbook
Thomas Bewick (1753-1828) material found here and there by PQ.
More info available
http://www.bewicksociety.org
and
Tale-pieces
My other tumblelog is PQ Paintings
More info available
http://www.bewicksociety.org
and
Tale-pieces
My other tumblelog is PQ Paintings
‘The Angler at the River Pool’
This tail-piece vignette called ‘the Angler at the River Pool’ for British Birds, II, 1804, p. 52, was also drawn by Robert Johnson.
‘Saving the Toll’
This appears in History of British Birds, vol.II, 1804, p.173. The pencil drawing by Bewick and watercolour transfer drawing by Johnson are both extant.
Pennant, Bewick and the British rural tradition :All Nature is so full :King's College London
“Perhaps nowhere was the marriage of the tradition of close scientific observation engendered by the Enlightenment and the British love of the countryside better illustrated than in the work of the wood engraver Thomas Bewick (1753-1828).
Bewick’s passion for natural history stemmed from his childhood in rural Northumberland. The son of a collier and tenant farmer, he possessed an early talent for drawing and was apprenticed to a Newcastle engraver Ralph Beilby. The two men eventually became partners. Much of their early output was commissioned by publishers of children’s books and Bewick was instrumental in reviving the delicate art of wood engraving, an illustrative technique peculiarly suited, through its cheapness and ease of integration with the text, to juvenile literature.
Bewick and Beilby realised that not only children enjoyed reading about and looking at pictures of animals and they decided to emulate Buffon and Pennant in compiling accurate illustrated zoological reference works.”
