Diary 2011

For more details of all events see the Diary.

Out soon: the next edition of the Cherryburn Times has just gone to press.

It features a long article "Thomas Bewick's Ancestry, Part 2" by David Gardner-Medwin. Bewick Society members should receive their copies before Christmas.

 

Tale-Pieces

The Blog of the Bewick Society. Keep up to date with latest events and news stories. Click Here.

The Newsletter

Download a PDF copy of our popular newsletter by clicking here.

Cherryburn Times

Copies of recent issues can be downloaded in PDF format by clicking here.

E-mail

To contact The Bewick Society by e-mail use this address, bewick.society@ncl.ac.uk

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Interested in becoming a member of the Bewick Society? You can find all the relevant information here.

New Media

For information about some new Bewick books and a recent video click the links.

Photographs

We now have a page on Flickr, click here.

For pictures of the 250th birthday celebrations in 2003 click here.

Library Checklist

To download A Provisional Checklist of the Library of Thomas Bewick by David Gardner-Medwin click here (March 2010 version, .rtf 1.31mb).

To go to the online version click here.

Constitution

You can read the Constitution of The Bewick Society by clicking this link (PDF document, 32k).

Frontispiece

 

Thomas Bewick

The Complete Illustrative Work

Nigel Tattersfield's new three volume work was published in April 2011.

 

An indispensable work for the Bewick aficionado, book historian, historian of popular art in the eighteenth century, provincial printing enthusiast or admirer of engraving on wood or on copper

Includes 1200 illustrations.

With images from archives held in Tyne and Wear and at the British Library.

 

Bewick's celebrated histories of quadrupeds and birds of 1790, 1797 and 1804 have obscured the immense number of other books of all denominations illustrated in his modest workshop. From its inception in 1765 until its demise in 1849, the workshop provided illustrations to books, pamphlets, periodicals and newspapers. The range of illustrations encompassed natural histories, children's story-books, cookery books, religious tracts, spelling books, mathematical treatises, Bibles, agricultural manuals, local town and county histories, joke books and even a book of sermons. Generously illustrated and arranged alphabetically this book details some 750 titles, over 450 of which are unrecorded in earlier bibliographies. In addition it provides sections on newspaper mastheads, book cover designs, copy-book covers, maps and large single prints.

 

The Bewick Society hosted a special book launch in Newcastle on 12th April 2011.

Read about the launch here.

 

The Bewick Society

The aim of the Bewick Society is to promote an interest in the life and work of Thomas Bewick and related subjects, especially with regard to wood-engraving. The Society publishes a journal called the Cherryburn Times, normally twice a year. This provides a forum for the activities of the Society and keeps members informed about the latest research into the life and work of Bewick and his apprentices. Members publish articles about their own special interests where relevant to the Society. The Society also arranges visits to special collections, some of which are not normally open to the general public. It encourages the development of facilities for conservation and display of Bewick related materials, including wood-engraving as practised by those following in Bewick’s footsteps.

 

 

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Cherryburn Cottage

Membership of the Society also gives free admission to the museum at Cherryburn, where Thomas Bewick was born, now in the care of the National Trust.

More information can be found on this page at the National Trust website.