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Thomas Bewick

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 Ralph Beilby's General History of Quadrupeds (1790). In 1789 he engraved the Chillingham Bull, considered one of his finest blocks. He is best known for his classic illustrations of Beilby's History of British Birds (2 vol., 1797-1804).

Bibliography: See his memoirs (1862); biographies by R. Robinson (1887, repr. 1972) and J. Uglow (2007); studies by A. Dobson (1884, repr. 1969), R. Ruzicka (1943), G. Reynolds (1949), I. Bain (1979), and D. Gardner-Medwin, ed. (2003).

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Bewick, Thomas (1753–1828), wood-engraver. He engraved blocks for Gay's Fables (1779), Fables of Aesop (1818), the poems of Goldsmith and T. Parnell (1795), and other books; his most celebrated and successful work was A History of British Birds (1797, 1804).

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