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Nature's Engraver A Life of Thomas Bewick. Jenny Uglow, London: Faber and Faber, 2006 (hardback edition); 2007(paperback edition). This is better illustrated than any previous biography of Bewick, with one hundred vignettes, fifty figures and thirty three colour illustrations including some of Bewick's watercolour artwork. There is a full list of the workshop apprentices, a bibliography, notes and index. Reviewers have all commented on its readability, comprehensive coverage and penetrating grasp of the relevant cultural history.
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'The Many Faces of Bewick and the Bicentenary of his Water Birds' in Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumbria, Volume 65 part 3, March 2007 (available from the Hancock Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4PT). 'The Many Faces of Bewick' (pp.135 – 224) is a complete catalogue raisonné illustrated in colour of all the known portraits of Thomas Bewick and his associates, by June Holmes, archivist to the Natural History Society. 'The Bicentenary of Thomas Bewick's History of British Birds' (pp 225 – 254) is an illustrated essay celebrating the 1804 publication of the Water Birds, by David Gardner-Medwin.
The
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The single most important source of information on Thomas
Bewick is his own Memoir.
The edition edited by Iain Bain in 1975 bears the following
note: 'The text has been taken directly from the original
manuscript now in the British Museum (Add. MS41, 481). There
have been five previous editions but this is the first presentation
of a full literatim
transcript ...'
Iain Bain's edition was first published in 1975 and was reprinted
with corrections in 1979 by the Oxford University Press. A
Folio Society edition with the title Thomas Bewick My Life
appeared in 1981.
The previous
editions were as follows:
A Memoir of Thomas Bewick, written by himself. Embellished
by numerous wood engravings, designed and engraved by the
author for a work on British fishes, and never before published. [The editor's preface signed: J. B., i.e. Jane Bewick.],Newcastle
upon Tyne; Longman & Co.: London, 1862.
The Memoir also appeared
as part of the five volume Memorial Edition of Bewick
Works published between 1885 and 1887 by Robert Ward and Son, Newcastle. The editor
on this occasion was Austin Dobson.
A Memoir of Thomas Bewick, written by himself. Embellished
by numerous wood engravings, designed and engraved by the
author for a work on British fishes, and never before published. [The editor's preface signed: J. B., i.e. Jane Bewick.]
A Memoir of Thomas Bewick, written by himself. Embellished
by numerous wood engravings, designed and engraved by the
author for a work on British fishes.
With an introduction by Selwyn Image, John Lane: London, 1924.
Memoir of Thomas Bewick. written by himself 1822-1828. Reprint of the 1862 edition with a new introduction
by Edmund Blunden, Centaur classics, London, Centaur Press,
1961
A Memoir of Thomas Bewick written by himself. Edited and with an introduction by Montague Weekley.
With wood engravings by T. Bewick, Cresset Press: London,
1961.
Subsequently
another facsimile of the 1862 edition has been published:
A memoir of Thomas Bewick written by himself. Thomas
Bewick, [History and techniques of book illustration.
Collection I, Pre-Victorian book illustration in Britain and
Europe] Bristol: Nico editions, Thoemmes. 1998.
Bain and Tattersfield
The two foremost Bewick scholars working today are Iain Bain
and Nigel Tattersfield, each authoritative in their area of
interest. The writers and editors of the Bewick Society website
owe a debt of gratitude to both scholars, who are not responsible
for any mistakes which may have survived editorial scrutiny.
Iain Bain's contributions
are, in chronological order, as follows:
Thomas Bewick, engraver, of Newcastle, 1753-1828: a check-list
of his correspondence and other papers.
1970.
'Bewick: A Second Gleaning',The Book Collector,
Spring 1972, pp95-105.
Vignettes. being tail-pieces engraved principally for
his 'General History of Quadrupeds' & 'History of British
Birds'. Thomas Bewick (1st ed. reprinted). Edited, with
an introduction by Iain Bain, London, Scolar Press, 1978
Thomas Bewick. an illustrated record of his life and work, by Iain Bain, Laing Art Gallery, Tyne and Wear
County Council Museums, 1979
The watercolours and drawings of Thomas Bewick and his
workshop apprentices.
Introduced and with editorial notes by Iain Bain. London:
Fraser, 1981, 2 vols.
The Workshop of Thomas Bewick. A Pictorial Survey, Thomas Bewick Birthplace Trust, 1989. (revised edition
of the Laing Art Gallery published text of 1979).
Nigel
Tattersfield has produced the authoritative account of the Bewick
Bookplates and has recently written on the work of John Bewick.
Both titles are still in print. Other short items are in relevant
sections of this bibliography.
Bookplates by Beilby & Bewick. a biographical dictionary
of bookplates from the workshop of Ralph Beilby, Thomas Bewick
& Robert Bewick, 1760-1849. London: British Library
Publishing. 1999
John Bewick, Engraver on Wood.(1760-1795). An appreciation
of his Life together with a Catalogue of his Illustrations
and Designs, London: British
Library Publishing, 2001.
Other
Twentieth Century Publications (back
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Lives:
Early Twentieth Century (back
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Thomas Bewick, the Tyneside engraver. [With plates.]
Basil Anderton, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Mawson & Co., 1928.
It appears
there was a particular interest in Bewick in the 1940s. We
might speculate that this had something to do with the then
vogue for Neo-Romantic art.
Thomas Bewick, Engraver. Rudolph Rzicka, New York:
The Typophiles, 1943.
A selection of engravings. Thomas Bewick, John Rayner,
Penguin Books, Ltd.,1947.
A Country zodiac. Illustrated by Thomas Bewick, Zodiac
Books,1948. [Notes: Anthology of prose and verse]
Thomas Bewick. A résumé of his life and
work, Arthur Graham Reynolds, London: Art & Technics,
1949.
Lives: mid-Twentieth
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Wood Engravings of Thomas Bewick: selected with a biographical
introduction, Reynolds
Stone, 1953.
Thomas Bewick, Montague Weekley,
London: Oxford University Press. 1953.
Thomas Bewick, Wood Engraver, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1753-1828.
(Text taken from 'A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical
and Practical.') [With illustrations, including a portrait.]
William Andrew Chatto, Signet Press: Greenock, 1956.
Thomas Bewick 1753-1828. Artist, Naturalist and Radical,
Ray Watkinson, Our History, pamphlet No.25, Spring 1962, History
Group of the Communist Party. [See this item in particular
for Bewick's membership of Radical clubs and his connections
with known Radicals. The author speculates on possible connections
with Jean Paul Marat during the Frenchman's period in Newcastle.]
Later
Works and lives (back
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Selected work. Thomas Bewick.
edited with an introduction and notes by Robyn Marsack, Manchester:
Fyfield. 1989
Thomas Bewick, marginal drawings & notes. Margaret Ellison & Margaret Gill, Albion
monograph. no. 2, Hitchin: Dodman Press. 1978.
Brewer, J. 'Progressive Agenda: Thomas Bewick,' London
Review of Books 2, (Junction
Books, London, 1982), pp. 172-7.
Rosen, Charles and Zerner, Henri, 'The Fingerprint: a Vignette'
and 'The Romantic Vignette and Thomas Bewick' in Romanticism
and Realism: The Mythology of Nineteenth Century Art,
(Faber and Faber,, London, 1984), pp.2-5 and 73-96.
Potts, Alex, 'Natural Order and the call of the wild: the
politics of animal picturing,' Oxford Art Journal,
vol.13 no.1, 1990, pp.12-33.
Brewer J and Tillyard S, 'The Moral Vision of Thomas Bewick,'
in Eckhart Hellmuth (ed.), Transformations in Political
Culture in late 18th Century England and Germany
(Oxford University Press, German Historical Institute, London,
1990), pp. 375-408
Vaughan William, 'From Menzel to Beardsley: pen line design
and facsimile wood engraving,' Zeitschrift des Deutschen
Vereins für Kunstwissenschaft,
vol. 46, 1992, pp. 89-101.
Davis, P. and Holmes, J. 'Thomas Bewick (1753-1828), Engraver
and Ornithologist' Archives of Natural History,
20:167-184 (1993).
Thompson H., 'Narrative Closure in the Vignettes of Thomas
and John Bewick,' Word and Image,
vol. 10 Oct/Dec, 1994, pp. 395-408.
Le Men, Ségolène, 'Book Illustration' chapter
6 of Artistic Relations: Literature and the Visual Arts
in Nineteenth Century France, (edited by Peter Collier
and Robert Lethbridge, Yale University Press, New Haven and
London, 1994), pp.94-110.
Beegan, Gerry, 'The Mechanisation of the Image: fascimile,
photography, and fragmentation in nineteenth century wood
engraving,' Journal of Design History,
vol. 8 no.4, 1995, p.257-74.
Brewer J and Bermingham A (eds), The Consumption of Culture:
Word, Image, and Object in the 17th and 18th Centuries,
(Routledge, London and New York, 1995), pp.54
Brewer, John, 'Thomas Bewick: “the Poet who Lives
on the Banks of the Tyne', chapter 13 of The Pleasures
of the Imagination. English Culture in the Eighteenth Century,
Harper Collins, London, 1997. pp. 499-530.
Blachon, Remi, 'Thomas Bewick'
and ' Essor de la gravure sur bois en Angleterre',
being chapters 2 and 3 of La Gravure sur Bois au XIXe
Siècle: L'âge du bois debout, Les Éditions
de l'Amateur, Paris, 2001, pp.22-38.
Schama, Simon, A History
of Britain, Vol.3 The Fate of Empire, 1776-2000,
BBC, 2002, includes two significant sections on Bewick: chapter
1: 'The Forces of Nature: The Road to Revolution?' (pp.29-33)
and chapter 2: 'The Forces of Nature: The Road Home.' (pp.122-126).
Commemorative
Exhibitions and Publications (back
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The Water-Colour Drawings of Thomas Bewick, etc. [With plates.] David Croal Thomson. Barbizon
House: London, 1930.
Exhibition at the Bethnal Green Museum to commemorate the
Bicentenary of the Birth of Thomas Bewick, 1753-1828. Catalogue. [With illustrations.] Albert Museum. Bethnal
Green Branch Museum. London, 1953.
Thomas Bewick. a commemoration: being impressions from
original wood-blocks by T. Bewick and others,
David Esslemont, Newcastle City Libraries, 1978 [Notes:
'... a personal selection [by David Esslemont] from those
in Newcastle City Library, to commemorate 150 years since
the death of Thomas Bewick'. Printer's note Limited edition
of 100 numbered copies signed by the printer, of which nos.
1-40 are full-bound in leather, nos., 41-80 quarter-bound
and the remainder unbound in paper wrappers are not for sale.
- Two leaves printed on both sides, Notes: Qtr-leather : £64.00].
Archive
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Letters
by and to Thomas Bewick can be found in the following sources:
Bewick to Dovaston: Letters 1824-1828, edited by Gordon
Williams, London: Bodley Head, 1968.
Records of Messrs. Beilby, later Thomas Bewick & Co.,
engravers of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1751-1882,
Newcastle upon Tyne. Tyne and Wear Archives Service, 1986.
10 microfilm reels.
Bibliographies
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Those
seeking information on Bewick editions should consult the
following:
Thomas Bewick. A bibliography raisonné of editions
of the General History of Quadrupeds, the History of British
Birds and the Fables of Aesop issued in his lifetime.
[With facsimile titlepages.] Sydney Roscoe, Oxford
University Press: London, 1953. Reprinted 1973.
Thomas Bewick. A catalogue of books
illustrated by Thomas Bewick and his pupils, together with
a list of books on their work, from the stock of the Manchester
Metropolitan University Library. 6th revised edition,
Manchester. Manchester Metropolitan University Library. 1993
Catalogue of the Bewick Collection (Pease Bequest), Basil
Anderton and W.H. Gibson, City and County of Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
Public Libraries Committee, 1904.
Catalogue of a scarce and curious collection of books
and wood engravings, formerly belonging to Thomas Bewick ...
to be sold by auction ... by Messrs Davison and Son,
... Newcastle upon Tyne ... (Newcastle:
Ward & Son, 1884).
Local
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Hall, M. The artists of Northumbria (Newcastle: Hall, 1973).
Lawson's Tyneside Celebrities: sketches of the lives and
labours of famous men of the North
(Newcastle: William D. Lawson, 1873): Bewick is featured pp.
165-170 + portrait.
Welford, Richard Men of Mark 'twixt Tyne and Tweed, 3 vols. (London: Walter Scott, 1895) Bewick
is featured in Vol. 1, pp. 264-272.
Wilkes, Lyall, Tyneside portraits: studies in art and
life (Newcastle: Frank
Graham, 1971) [- chapter 3 is 'Thomas Bewick and the
Beilby family.']
Doncaster, Susan Some notes on Bewick's trade blocks
(Newcastle: Newcastle Imprint Club and History of the
Book Trade in the North, 1980). [A privately printed pamphlet,
based on a lecture to The Newcastle Imprint Club.]
Isaac, Peter (editor) Bewick and after: wood engravings
in the Northeast (Newcastle: Allenholme Press, 1990).
Burman, C.C. 'Alnwick typography, 1748-1900,' in History
of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club
23:305-359 (1919). [Includes transcribed letter by TB to W.
Davison, TB's relationships with Catnach, Bulmer and Davison,
and many references to the Alnwick editions of his works.]
Angus, Alan, Thomas Bewick's
Apprentices, 1993, a volume in the History of
the Book Trade in the North, produced by the Allenholme
Press, Wylam.
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon
Tyne
Anon. "A Bewick letter and woodcut", Proceedings
of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, Ser
4, 3:250 (1928), with 2 illustrations.
Anon. "Lower Pilgrim Street", Proc. Soc Antiqu.
Newcastle upon Tyne Series 4, 3:262-263 (1928). [Further description
of the Fox and Lamb and additional quotation about TB from
Blakey.]
Strangeways, W.N. 'Thomas Bewick,' Proceedings of the
Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne,
Ser 2, 2: 172-175 (1887). [Transcribes and discusses a letter
written by TB to his erstwhile apprentice William Harvey,
dated 18 August 1818.]
Welford, R. 'Early Newcastle typography. 1639-1800,'
Archaeologia Aeliana. Series 3, 3:1-134 (1907)
[Includes much detail about the printers associated with TB.]
Wake, T. 'Thomas Bewick: a centenary appreciation,' Archaeologia
Aeliana. Series 4, 6:116-129
(1929). [Written when the Bewick family was still at Cherryburn,
and the cottage was stabling for pit ponies. Wake was "Junior
Curator" of the Society of Antiquaries.]
Philipson, J. 'Three Bewick blocks,' Archaeologia Aeliana.,
Series 5, 1:243-245 (1973). [Records the blocks in possession
of the Society of Antiquaries.]
Gill, M.A.V. 'The potteries of Tyne and Wear, and their dealings
with the Beilby/Bewick workshop,' Archaeologia Aeliana Series 5, 4:151-170 (1976).
Isaac, P.C.G. 'William Bulmer (1757-1830) fine printer,'
Archaeologia Aeliana
Series 5,
16:223-237 (1988). [Includes a section on Bulmer's
working relationship with TB.]
Natural
History Transactions of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-on-Tyne
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Trevelyan, W. 'Bewick correspondence, with Notes,' Natural
History Transactions of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-on-Tyne,
7:97-105 (1880). [Includes transcriptions of ten letters.]
The following two papers add further letters:
Hancock, J. 'Bewick correspondence,' ibid. 7:105-107 (1880). [Two letters from Thomas and one
from John Bewick, transcribed.]
[W. Trevelyan] 'Letter from Sir John Trevelyan, Bart.,
to Thomas Bewick,' ibid. 7:357-8 (1880). [One letter transcribed.]
Each issue since 1987 has obviously featured articles of
interest on Thomas Bewick, his associates, family and the
Eighteenth and Nineteenth century worlds of book illustration
and engraving in the North of England. The following is an
abbreviated list of items of special interest:
Vol 1 No 1
Bain, I. 'Bewick discovered'.
Brewer, S. 'The Thomas Bewick collection in the City Library,
Newcastle upon Tyne.'
Vol 1 No 2
Feaver, W. 'Late 1797'.
Armstrong, I. 'Bewick the naturalist'.
Lord Wardington 'John William Pease and Thomas Bewick'.
Vol 1 No 3
'The Queen Mother opens Cherryburn'
Johnson, J. 'A gift for Cherryburn printing house'.
Christensen, K. 'Bewick and domesticated animals'.
Vol 1 No 5
Clavering, E. 'Coal and the Bewicks'.
Vol 1 No 6-7
Millard, J. 'The Bewick Club'.
Vol 1 No 7
“The 'Remarkable Kyloe Ox':a Special Edition..
Bain, I. 'The Quadrupeds:26th April 1990 – a
bicentenary.
Vol 1 No 8
Atkinson, F. “'Closely observed': social history
in Bewick's work.
Angus, A. 'John Laws of Breckney Hill – a Bewick apprentice.
Vol 1 No 9
Angus, A. 'Bewick's apprentices'.
Campbell, C. “Bewick's 'History of Quadrupeds'”.
'Crossing the river'.
Vol 2 No 1
Tattersfield, N. 'Bookplates from the workshop of Ralph Beilby,
Thomas Bewick and Robert Bewick, 1760-1849'.
Atkinson, F. 'Bewick the philosopher'
Dixon, H. 'A chip off the old block'.
Vol 2 No 2
Wishart, D. 'Three engraved blocks by a pseudo-Bewick'.
Angus, A. 'Richard Rutledge Wingate'
Vol 2 No 4
Tattersfield, N. 'Bewick as an investment: some signposts
for collectors'.
Vol 2 No 5
Heath cartoon.
Angus, A. 'The Bewick collection of eggs'.
Charlton, J. “'Getting there' Bewick style”.
Vol 2 No 6
Carlisle, G. 'More twopence coloured'.
Campbell, C. 'Every picture tells a story: Charlotte
Bronte and Thomas Bewick'.
Vol 2 No 7
Angus, A. Letter to the editor.
Angus, A. 'An intriguing document'.
Carlisle, G. 'Ward's impressions'.
Beresford, R. 'Some Bewick drawings and blocks'.
Vol 2 No 8
'A rediscovered letter by Thomas Bewick'.
Quinn, P. 'Luke Clennell and Thomas Frognall Dibdin:
picturing the castle'.
Atkinson, F. 'The Thomas Bewick Birthplace Trust & the
Bewick Society'.
Vol 2 No 9
Anon. 'Waiting for life' [D W S Gray, Editor]
Quinn, P. 'The local landscape and modernity'.
Cousins, S. 'Cherryburn and the Battie-Wrightson papers'.
Vol 3 No 1
Tattersfield, N. 'John Bewick 1760-1795'.
Vol 3 No 3
Jones, R. 'Thomas Hugo's Bewick's woodcuts: a quarry
run to earth'..
Vol 3 No 4
Angus, A. Letter to the editor
Carlisle, G. Letter to the editor.
Thomas, S. 'Thomas Bewick's use of papers'.
Vol 3 No 5
Jones, R. 'London Group: autumn meeting 1997'.
Vol 3 No 6
Atkinson, F. 'The Bewick graves in Ovingham churchyard'.
Holmes, J. 'Thomas Bewick's nineteenth century jubilee,
1800-1'.
Vol 3 No 7
Mulholland, R. and Ugalde, E.F. 'A history of printing inks'.
Vol 3 No 8
Angus, A. 'A mystery solved'.
Holmes, J. 'A new Bewick manuscript: Memorial to the
Misses Bewick'.
Vol 3 No 9
Alderson, B. 'A pretty piratical book of pictures'.
Vol 4 No 1
Anon. 'Iain Bain on Thomas Bewick's letters'.
1800 Woodcuts by Thomas Bewick and his school. Edited by Blanche Cirker. Dover Books, 1962.
Thomas Bewick's Birds
(London: Gordon Fraser, 1981)
The king, the pirate and the maid.
A dithyramb in doggerel for old and young alike ... Especially
composed to accompany divers ancient wood engravings by the
master, Thomas Bewick. Foster Macy Johnson, Meriden, Connecticut:
Bayberry Hill Press, 1964.
A Bewick bestiary.
[Illustrations by Thomas Bewick].James Falconer Kirkup.
(North now. no. 4.): Ashington: Mid Northumberland Arts Group,
1971.
Iba de gaunz oaman Kinda.
[Gedichte. Geschmückt Haimo Lauth mit Holzstichen aus
d. Schule v. Thomas Bewick] Author: Nöstlinger. Christine.
1936- Poetry in German, Wien. Jugend & Volk. 1988. [Note: the title
is in Viennese dialect German; this is a book of poems illustrated
by 'woodcuts from the School of Thomas Bewick,' which may
well mean that they have simply been taken from Cirker's 1800
Woodcuts.]
Fantasy in a wood-block, or, what occurred
when John James Audubon, the naturalist, visited with Thomas
Bewick, the wood-engraver, in the year 1827. being a narrative
by Gordon R. Williams together with a print taken by R. Hunter
Middleton from the wood-block which Mr. Bewick was engraving
at the time.
Gordon R Williams, Caxton Club of Chicago. 1972 [Note: Limited
edition of 500 copies]
Return to Cherryburn. the life and work of Thomas Bewick
(1753-1828). with new poems by the Tyneside Poets. and photographs
by Alan C. Brown and Tony Whittle. supplemented by original
material. edited by Keith Armstrong. design by Peter Dixon Tyneside
Poets Brown. Alan C., Whittle. Tony, . Keith Armstrong, 189
Stamfordham Rd, Newcastle upon Tyne 5. The Poets. 1978[Note:
Includes selections from Bewick's own writings and engravings.]
Bewick
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1805 Arthur Aikin,
Annual review for 1804, iii, 733: notice of Bewick.
1820 A
Catalogue of Books, now on sale by Emerson Charnley ... including
... works printed at Strawberry Hill, works of Thomas Bewick,
&c. &c. Emerson Charnley, Newcastle, 1820.
1822 Dr.
Charles Hutton, 'Some Account of Mr. Thomas Bewick and other
artists in Newcastle-upon-Tyne,' The Newcastle Magazine,
June, 1822.
1825 Professor Wilson, 'Thomas Bewick, Engraver on Wood,'
Blackwood's Magazine, July, 1825.
1827 Bewick is
among the artists discussed in the first major text on the
artists of Newcastle. E.Mackenzie, History of Newcastle,
Newcastle, 1827. Local artists are given extensive treatment
in a lengthy footnote beginning on p.574.
1829-30 J.F.M. Dovaston, 'Some
Account of the Life, Genius and Personal Habits of the late
Thomas Bewick,' Loudon's Magazine of Natural History,
9, 12, 1829-30.
1831 G.C Atkinson,
'Sketch of the Life and Works of the Late Thomas Bewick,'
Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland,
i. 1831, read before the Society in June, 1830.
1831-5 J.J. Audubon
started publishing his Ornithological Biography which
includes an account of meeting Bewick in volume 3, appearing
in 1835, at pp.300-304.
1836 William Turner
Memoir of Thomas Bewick, etc. [The Naturalist's Library.
vol. 18.] Minister at Hanover Square Chapel, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
[Notes: In Selby (P. J.) The
Natural History of Parrots.
1836].
1839
W.A. Chatto and J. Jackson,
A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Chap VII includes Bewick.
1845 Thomas Doubleday,
'Life and Works of Bewick,' British Quarterly Review,
ii, 4, 1845.
1846 William Howitt,
'Memoir of Thomas Bewick,' Howitt's Journal, ii, 38.
1851: John Gray Bell, Catalogue of
Works Illustrated by Thomas and John Bewick, London, 1851;
1862 Bewick's Memoir
published [see the first section of this Select Bibliography.]
1865 Thomas Dixon,
the Sunderland cork-cutter (secretary and initiator of Sunderland's
first School of Art, correspondent of John Ruskin and many
others) was an admirer of Bewick's work. Dixon bought and
sold Bewick prints and editions (see Letters to Pearson, Tyne
and Wear Archive). He sent copies of Bewick volumes to both
Carlyle and Ruskin: see letter in Ruskin's Works. vol.18, p.lxxii, dated 20th December 1865, in which
Carlyle, although complaining of Dixon's attentions, nevertheless
admits to having read the Bewick memoir in an evening. ("Peace
to Bewick : not a great man at all, but a very true of his
sort" [sic])
1866
Thomas Hugo The Bewick Collector: A Descriptive Catalogue
(London 1866, supplement 1868);
1868: Catalogue of Edwin Pearson's
Collection (London 1868);
1872 John Ruskin,
Ariadne Florentina, Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving
given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term,
1872, London 1890, p. 247 (lectures delivered 1872, published
for the first time in 1876) Ruskin also mentions Bewick
in Aratra Pentelici,
1872.
1881 Frederic
George Stephens, Notes on a collection of drawings and
woodcuts by Thomas Bewick exhibited at the Fine Art Society's
rooms, 1880. also a complete list of all works illustrated
by Thomas and John Bewick, with their various editions.
(London, 1881) ;
1882 David
Croal Thomson, The Life and Works of Thomas Bewick, being
an account of his career and achievements in art, with a notice
of the works of John Bewick. With one hundred illustrations.
The Art Journal Office: London, 1882. Note: Only 75 copies printed.
1884 Henry Austin
Dobson, Thomas Bewick and his pupils ... With ... illustrations.
Chatto & Windus: London, 1884.
1884 Isabella Ward
Bewick, Catalogue of a Scarce and Curious Collection of
Books & Engravings formerly belonging to Thomas Bewick
. (By order of the executors of Miss Bewick, deceased.) To
be sold by auction ... February 5th, 6th, and 7th, 1884 ...
by Messrs. Davison & Son, etc. [With plates.]
Newcastle, (1884). [Notes: The British Library has the auctioneer's
copy, interleaved, with the names of purchasers and prices
added in MS. With two MS. letters inserted].
1885-7 Austin Dobson (editor)
Five volume Memorial Edition of Bewick Works published
by Robert Ward and Son, Newcastle.[Note: Iain Bain affirms
the generally acknowledged view that this is 'the best printed
source' for Bewick's engravings (p.12 of his edition of Thomas
Bewick My Life).]
1886 Julia Boyd, Bewick
Gleanings, Newcastle, 1886.
1887 Robert
Robinson, Thomas Bewick, His Life and Times,
Newcastle, 1887. Hancock, J., 'Letter to James Hardy',
History of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club,
11:216 (1887). [Transcription of letter. Includes a reminiscence
about the last surviving person to have shaken the hand of
TB.]
1888 George Skelly,
'The life of Thomas Bewick' ... A lecture delivered at the
Alnwick Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association, on Wednesday,
January 4th, 1888. Printed by the Alnwick and County Gazette
and Steam Printing Co.,
Alnwick,1888.
1894 Knowles,
W.H. 'The old 'Fox and Lamb' public house, Pilgrim Street,
Newcastle,' Archaeologia Aeliana , Series 2,
16:373-378 (1894). [Includes a description quoted from the
eyewitness, Robert Blakey, of Bewick's drinking habits at
the Fox and Lamb, and several illustrations of the pub.]
1898 Thomas
Hodgkin, Robert Spence Watson, R. Oliver Heslop, Richard Welford
, On Northumbrian History, Literature, And Art,
Lectures Delivered to the Literary And Philosophical Society,
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, 1898, makes passing reference to Bewick
as an important reference point for the artists of the day.
Dr. Peter Quinn © 2002
with thanks to Dr David Gardner-Medwin for suggested additions.
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