Babol
Babol , town (1991 pop. 137,348), N Iran, near the Caspian Sea, NE of Tehran. It is the region's chief commercial center and was once the major trading center of N Iran. Processed food and textiles are produced, and fruits, tea, tobacco, and cotton are raised nearby. Founded in the 16th cent., it was built on the site of the ancient city of Mamter. Ruins of a palace of Abbas I are there. Located in the Caspian littoral, the city receives abundant rainfall. It was formerly called Barfrush.
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An engraver's life; Thomas Bewick's nature-focused art.(BOOKS)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 10/14/2007; 700+ words
; ...woodblocks was the norm. Britain's Thomas Bewick (1753-1828) is acknowledged...artist Beatrix Potter, who copied Bewick's birds and animals into tiny...A plain, no-nonsense man, Thomas Bewick was the son of a farmer, devoted...
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Jenny Uglo. Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick.
Magazine article from: Printing History; 7/1/2007; 700+ words
; ...Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick. London: Faber & Faber...5. 20 [pounds sterling]. Thomas Bewick was born on a farm near Newcastle...The Watercolours and Drawings of Thomas Bewick and His Workshop Apprentices...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Artist makes his mark on history; The strange world of 18th century wood engraver Thomas Bewick is brought alive for Terry Grimley.
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 4/21/2009; 700+ words
; ...century Northumbrian wood engraver, Thomas Bewick (1753- 1828). It is certainly...talepieces or vignettes with which Bewick adorned his famous illustrated volumes...devoted to this particular aspect of Bewick's work. In his introduction to...
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Vignettes (c1800) ; GREAT WORKS ++ Thomas Bewick Book illustrations
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 12/15/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...the post. "One was a woodcut of Bewick's, roughly torn out of the page...contemporary of Coleridge, the engraver Thomas Bewick never made any woodcuts illustrating...Still, it's a good fake. Many of Bewick's woodcuts have travellers. Some...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Plain man's art; Thomas Bewick.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 5/26/2007; 700+ words
; ...perfectly formed WE STILL see Thomas Bewick's wood engravings everywhere...draws attention to itself. In Thomas Bewick one feels that she has found a...Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick. By Jenny Uglow.
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Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Biography; 1/1/2007; ; 399 words
; Bewick, Thomas Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick. Jenny Unglow. London: Faber, 2006. 480 pp. 20 [pounds sterling]. Unglow sees Bewick as shaped by several different currents or interweaving stories.... Biographies rarely...
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 "The Journal (Newcastle, England)")
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Thomas Bewick - down to a tee.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Journal (Newcastle, England); 8/20/2003; 256 words
; ...Mark O'Meara, American golfer in 19th Century dress. But no, it is not, it is the renowned son of the Tyne, Thomas Bewick, artist, engraver and naturalist. DEREK GOLDSMITH, New Silksworth, Sunderland.
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Unkind cuts in Bewick's; The world of Thomas Bewick was not for the faint-hearted, as David Whetstone finds - through a magnifying glass.
Newspaper article from: The Journal (Newcastle, England); 7/7/2009; 700+ words
; ...tiny engravings which feature in Thomas Bewick: Tale-Pieces at the Laing Art...chastened and mended his ways. Thomas Bewick, who was born at Cherryburn in...definite 21st Century no no. Thomas Bewick: Tale-Pieces is an exhibition...
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THOMAS BEWICK AND MORE.
Newspaper article from: The Journal (Newcastle, England); 5/14/2009; 232 words
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Bewick works coming home; Important collection back in birthplace.(Competition/Offers)
Newspaper article from: The Journal (Newcastle, England); 3/20/2008; 700+ words
; ...North East engraver and naturalist Thomas Bewick have come home to the artist...Quadrupeds (1790) the book which made Thomas Bewick famous, A History of British...illustrations including two from Thomas Bewick's own edition of Aesop's Fables...
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Thomas Bewick
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Thomas Bewick , 1753-1828, English wood engraver. Bewick pioneered in the revival of original wood engraving. Among his famous early works are his illustrations for John Gay's Fables (1779), for Aesop's Select Fables (1784), and for...
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Bewick, Thomas
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
Bewick, Thomas (1753–1828). English engraver...most of his life in Newcastle upon Tyne. Bewick ran a busy workshop in which most of the...are characterized with great skill, but Bewick is as much admired for his tailpieces...
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wood engraving
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
...in the 18th century and its first great exponent was Thomas Bewick (his contemporary William Blake also made some superb...engravings, but these were little known at the time). Bewick ushered in the technique's heyday, which coincided...
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William James Linton
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...in New Haven, Conn.; he continued the tradition of Thomas Bewick, advocating the use of the white as well as the black...art in America. His publications include The Life of Thomas Paine (1839), Some Practical Hints on Wood-Engraving...
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Bowman, William
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...with many notable scientists, including Louis Agassiz, Thomas Bewick, and Sir Charles Lyell, who noted his observations...whose headmaster, the eccentric but conscientious Thomas Wright Hill, was a friend of his father. Hill ’...
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