Life and Work

Cherryburn Cottage
The birthplace of Thomas Bewick: Cherryburn (link to National Trust website)
Bewick’s birthplace cottage, farmyard, garden and play lawn. Also the 19th-century farmhouse, the later home of the Bewick family, which houses an exhibition on Bewick’s life and work and a small shop selling prints from Bewick’s original wood engravings, books and gifts.
Bewick Biography
A short biography of Thomas Bewick: Biography
This brief introductory account gives an overview of his youth and apprenticeship, his partnership with Ralph Beilby, his independence and fame, and finally a summary of the main events in what might be called his afterlife in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Newcastle Workshop
Thomas Bewick City Trail: site of City Workshop (in progress)
Amen Corner next to St Nicholas's Cathedral in the city of Newcastle upon Tyne is the site of Bewick's main workshop, where the bulk of his work was created. For further information on Bewick's dwellings consult Cherryburn Times, Vol. 4, No.2, article entitled, 'Thomas Bewick, the Barber Surgeons and the 'Cot' at the Forth'.
Robert Bewick - unpublished tailpiece
Bewick's Apprentices
This lists the main workshop apprentices involved in the wood-engraving side of the work, with their dates as far as may be known. They include close relatives of Thomas Bewick. Further information will be added to this page later.