Bewick


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Bewick

(ˈbjuːɪk)
n
(Biography) Thomas. 1753–1828, English wood engraver; his best-known works are Chillingham Bull (1789), a large woodcut, Aesop's Fables (1818), and his History of British Birds (1797–1804)
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With Bewick on my knee, I was then happy: happy at least in my way.
About six tattered school-books, and a few chemical books, Taxidermy, Stanley on Birds, and an odd volume of Bewick, the latter in much better preservation, occupied the top shelves.
"You can see from the notes of what he paid for breakfast, lunch and dinner and the coaching inns he stayed at, that Bewick did not stint himself on his travels."
Anthony Smithson Thomas Bewick: The Sketchbook 1792-99, published at PS85 in a limited edition of 200 copies, and designed by another prominent Bewick authority Iain Bain, was launched at the Lit and Phil event.
The Whooper and Bewick swans arrived at Martin Mere, near Ormskirk, Lancashire, to spend the winter in Britain's milder climate.
THE only known sketchbook of the celebrated Northumbrian engraver and naturalist Thomas Bewick has come home after surfacing in San Francisco.
Audubon was also an admirer of the Northumberland-born engraver and naturalist Thomas Bewick, who had published his History of British Birds.
FOR artist Marcus Coates, it was a case of taking flight from frenetic London to the calm of Cherryburnin Northumberland, the birthplace of naturalist and engraver Thomas Bewick.
JACOB BEWICK Bewick, of Generation Identity Alba/ Scotland, is an alleged former associate of banned National Action.
Managing director Michael Bewick said: "We think that something like this is severely lacking in North Wales as a whole, and we want to create an accommodation experience that will put Blaenau on the map.
CHANGES to farming practices in the UK are not the cause of a crash in Bewick's swan numbers, research suggests.