August 2009
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July 2009
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Pennant, Bewick and the British rural tradition... →
“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). Bewickâs passion for natural history stemmed from his childhood in rural Northumberland. The son of a collier and tenant farmer, he possessed an early...
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David Whetstone reviews "Tale-pieces" at the Laing... →
Review of Bewick Tale-pieces show in Newcastle.
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WHILE speaking of the English school, I must not omit to notice a truly...
– From Leslie’s “Handbook for Young Painters” quoted in the foreword to the 1862 edition of A Memoir of Thoms Bewick (http://www.archive.org/stream/memoirofthomasbe00bewiuoft/memoirofthomasbe00bewiuoft_djvu.txt)
June 2009
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