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Bewick
[ byoo-ik ]
noun
- Thomas, 1753–1828, English wood engraver.
Bewick
/ ˈbjuːɪk /
noun
- BewickThomas17531828MEnglishARTS AND CRAFTS: wood engraver Thomas . 1753–1828, English wood engraver; his best-known works are Chillingham Bull (1789), a large woodcut, Aesop's Fables (1818), and his History of British Birds (1797–1804)
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With Haydon and Hazlitt, Bewick was on terms of personal friendship, and of both he presents lengthened and interesting sketches.
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Bewick sat as model for the head of Haydon's 'Lazarus,' he being at the time opportunely ill.
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He stated that he had paid Thomas Bewick upwards of five hundred pounds for various woodcut blocks.
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Till yesterday Bewick's wren had been nothing but a name to me.
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Thomas Bewick was born in 1753, and fourteen years later he was apprenticed to a metal engraver.
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