Nature's engraver : a life of Thomas Bewick / Jenny Uglow
2006, First Edition. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #437993
ISBN: 0571223745
Physical description; xix, 458 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (p. 409-439) and index. Contents; Maps -- Prologue : A plain man's art -- [pt]. 1. Source -- 1. The banks of the Tyne -- 2. Nature and drawing -- 3. The common -- 4. 'Beilby's wild lad' -- 5. Life in the town -- 6. Pretty histories -- 7. 'God gave the earth to you' -- [pt]. 2. Stream -- 8. North and south -- 9. Partner -- 10. 'Esto perpetua!' -- 11. Walking -- 12. Bell and John -- 13. Among the animals -- 14. Quadrupeds -- [pt]. 3. Flood -- 15. From fur to feathers -- 16. 'Your lads' -- 17. 'Red nightcap days' -- 18. Daily bread -- 19. Land birds -- 20. On his own -- 21. Home and friends -- [pt]. 4. Tide -- 22. Water birds -- 23. 'With Bewick, I was then happy' -- 24. Back to business -- 25. Shifting ground -- 26. Fame, fables and apprentices -- 27. Taking stock -- 28. Salmon and swallows -- 29. Sore tired -- Epilogue : Nature's engraver -- Acknowledgements -- Workshop apprentices -- Abbreviations, sources and notes -- List of illustrations -- Index. Subjects; Bewick, Thomas 1753-1828. Bewick, Thomas. Bewick, Thomas (English engraver, 1753-1828). Bewick, Thomas (English engraver, 1753-1828) ; Criticism and interpretation. Bewick, Thomas 1753-1828 Biography. 18th-19th centuries. Wood-engravers England ; Biography. Illustrators England ; Biography. Wood-engravers Great Britain ; Biography. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers. Illustrators. Wood-engravers. CRAFTS & HOBBIES / Carving. ART / Subjects & Themes / Plants & Animals. Illustration. History Of Art & Design Styles: C 1600 To C 1800. Individual Artists, Art Monographs.
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