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Bewick, Thomas, the distinguished wood
engraver, was born at Cherry-burn in North—
umherland, in 1753. He i. l to have worked
when a boy in his fathers coal-pit, and he
received what small school-learning he could at
Ovingham. His fondness for drawing led to
his being apprenticed to Ralph Beilby, an en-
graver at Newcastle, in 1767. He served for
seven years, working at the most prosaic tasks
for his master, paying ninepence a week for his
lodging, and receiving a brown loaf weekly
from Cherry—burn. During this period he
made his first attempts at wood-engraving on
the diagrams for Hutton’s ‘ Treatise on Mensa-
ration,’ which ap ired in 1770. Soon after
the expiration of his apprenticeship he began to ‘
devote himself entirely to wood—engraving, and
in 1775 he obtained the premium of the Society
of Arts for his cut of the Huntsman and Old
Hound, one of a set of illustrations to Gay’s
‘F ables.’ After a tour on foot in the Lake dis-
trict in 1776, Bewick spent a. year in London,
but he pined for green fields and the songs of
larks, and went back to Newcastle, Where he
became Beilhy’s partner. He continued to
practise his favourite art, and rapidly improved
both as designer and engraver. Ho has the
merit of introducing a truer method of repre-
senting the foliage of trees, and of driwing
animals more naturally and characteristically.
Many of his cuts disnla ' enuine humour and

 
       
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
      
      
       
   
    
       
   
   
   
   
   
     
     
    

   

 

  

  

   

     

ten or ee mg. The principal works illustrated
by this lover ofi'nature and genuine artist are—-
Gay’s ‘Fahles,7 1779; ‘Select Fahlcs,’ 1784;
‘General History of Quadrupcds,’ the first
edition of which appeared in 1790, a second in
1791, and a third in 1792; ‘ History of British
Birds,’ in two vols, 1797 and 1804; and
‘Fables of jEsop and others.’ A print of a
bull is mentioned as one of Bewiek‘s most
capital works. The partnership with Beilhy
ended in 1797. Bewick was much engaged in
teaching engraving during the latter part of
his life. He died at Gateshqad in 1828 and
was buried at Ovinrrhamf