Mr. Thos. Bewick, Restorer of the Art of Engraving on Wood.
From an original Miniature by Murphy, in the possession of Mr. Bewick, with whose permission this Plate is Engraved by J. Summerfield.
Published Feby. 1, 1816, by T. McLean, Sackville Street, Piccadilly.
Engraving on india laid paper, 235 x 155mm. 9¼ x 6". A fine impression.
Scarce portrait of Thomas Bewick (1753 - 1828), wood-engraver. At the age of fourteen Bewick was apprenticed to Ralph Beilby, an engraver in Newcastle. He devoted himself to engraving on wood, and is credited with reviving this art and establishing it as a major form of printmaking. Bewick developed the technique of cutting a design into hardwood cut across, rather than with, the grain, using a sharp tool called a burin. In 1775, he received a payment from the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce for a wood engraving of the Huntsman and the Old Hound. Bewick's most important works are illustrations for books such as A General History of Quadrupeds (1790) and A History of British Birds (1797 and 1804).
for the portrait with additional letterpress see ref. 18951
[Ref: 17200] £160.00
Published Feby. 1, 1816, by T. McLean, Sackville Street, Piccadilly.
Engraving on india laid paper, 235 x 155mm. 9¼ x 6". A fine impression.
Scarce portrait of Thomas Bewick (1753 - 1828), wood-engraver. At the age of fourteen Bewick was apprenticed to Ralph Beilby, an engraver in Newcastle. He devoted himself to engraving on wood, and is credited with reviving this art and establishing it as a major form of printmaking. Bewick developed the technique of cutting a design into hardwood cut across, rather than with, the grain, using a sharp tool called a burin. In 1775, he received a payment from the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce for a wood engraving of the Huntsman and the Old Hound. Bewick's most important works are illustrations for books such as A General History of Quadrupeds (1790) and A History of British Birds (1797 and 1804).
for the portrait with additional letterpress see ref. 18951
[Ref: 17200] £160.00