Thomas Bewick was an English wood-engraver and natural history author. Early in his career he took on all kinds of work such as engraving cutlery, making the wood blocks for advertisements, and illustrating children's books.
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Cherryburn, Bewick's childhood home![Tail-piece in A History of British Birds, said to be of Bewick himself as a thirsty traveller drinking from his hat[14]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Tail-piece_of_Bewick_as_thirsty_traveller_drinking_from_his_hat.jpg/1280px-Tail-piece_of_Bewick_as_thirsty_traveller_drinking_from_his_hat.jpg)
Tail-piece in A History of British Birds, said to be of Bewick himself as a thirsty traveller drinking from his hat[14]
Thomas Bewick in 1827, by Thomas Sword Good
Waiting for Death, Bewick's last wood engraving from 1828, published 1832
One of Bewick's wood blocks
The very large (7 1/4 × 9 3/4 inches) wood engraving by Thomas Bewick of a Chillingham Bull, executed for Marmaduke Tunstall of Wycliffe, Yorkshire in 1789
A minutely detailed tail-piece, only 8 cm (3 in) wide, in British Birds, 1797Actors born in the 1750s 6
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Thomas Bewick was an English wood-engraver and natural history author. Early in his career he took on all kinds of work such as engraving cutlery, making the wood blocks for advertisements, and illustrating children's books. He gradually turned to illustrating, writing and publishing his own books, gaining an adult audience for the fine illustrations in A History of Quadrupeds.
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