Filed under: Bewick
…….I thank thee….
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
Filed under: Bewick
“ WHILE speaking of the English school, I must not omit to notice a truly original genius, who, though not a painter, was an artist of the highest order in his way Thomas Bewick, the admirable designer and engraver on wood. His works, indeed, are of the smallest dimensions, but this makes it only the more surprising that so much interest could be comprised within such little spaces. The wood cuts that illustrate his books of natural history may be studied with advantage by the most ambitious votary of the highest classes of art filled as they are by the truest feeling for nature, and though often representing the most ordinary objects, yet never, in a single instance, degenerating into common-place.”
— 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)
