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Thomas Bewick, artist
British, 1753 - 1828
History of British Birds (Newcastle: Beiley & Bewick ä , 1797), vol. 1, 1797
Book with ca. 165 wood engravings
24.2 x 15.7 x 4 cm (object)
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts 1963.30.38658.1-?

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printer, Solomon Hodgson~publisher, Beilby and Bewick

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Artist Biography: Printmaker and illustrator. Revived the art of wood engraving and established it as a major printmaking technique. ~~Although a brilliant technical innovator, Bewick did not invent wood engraving as is sometimes claimed. Instead, he rediscovered the technique of incising a design into endwood with a cutting tool called a burin. He also revived the practice of white-line printing. ~~Bewick's works include illustrations for such books as A General History of Quadrupeds (1790) and A History of British Birds ("Land Birds," 1797, and "Water Birds," 1804). A bird watcher and amateur naturalist, Bewick based his illustrations on his own watercolor studies made from nature.