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    Thomas Bewick (c. 11 August 1753 – 8 November 1828) was an English wood-engraver and natural history author. Early in his career he took on all kinds...
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    A History of British Birds is a natural history book by Thomas Bewick, published in two volumes. Volume 1, Land Birds, appeared in 1797. Volume 2, Water...
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    Tundra swan (redirect from Bewick's swan)
    with the other Arctic swan species. Bewick's swan was named in 1830 by William Yarrell after the engraver Thomas Bewick, who specialised in illustrations...
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    plates of engravings, and have a distinctive white-on-black character. Thomas Bewick developed the wood engraving technique in Great Britain at the end of...
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    The Bewick's wren (Thryomanes bewickii) is a wren native to North America. It is the only species placed in the genus Thryomanes. At about 14 cm (5.5 in)...
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    Pauline Bewick (4 September 1935 – 28 July 2022) was an English-born Irish artist. Bewick was born in Northumberland, England on 4 September 1935, and...
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    drovers; they are now extinct. The cur was described by Ralph Beilby and Thomas Bewick in their 1790 work A general history of quadrupeds, as well as by Sydenham...
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    First Part of an Inventory of the Vignettes of Thomas Bewick and the Beilby-Bewick Workshop" (PDF). The Bewick Society. October 2012. p. 720. Retrieved 2...
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    strength and greyhound shape as well as its scarcity. Writing in 1790, Thomas Bewick described it as the largest and most beautiful of the dog kind; about...
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    Bodleian Library, online See the introductory "An Essay on Fable"p. lxx Bewick, Thomas; Brockett, John Trotter (1820). The 1820 edition of this is available...
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    Princeton University Press. p. 204. ISBN 978-1-4008-7957-1. "Aesop (Thomas Bewick)". Mythfolklore.net. Retrieved 2012-03-24. "Aesop's Fables - Victoria...
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    animals. Simon Schama described the famous contemporary woodcut by Thomas Bewick as "an image of massive power ... the great, perhaps the greatest icon...
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    once believed to have the powers of an oracle. For that festival, in Thomas Bewick's time, geese were driven in thousand-strong flocks on foot from farms...
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    (PDF) on 24 April 2012. Bewick, Thomas (1847) [1804]. A History of British Birds. Volume 1: Land Birds. Newcastle: R. E. Bewick. p. 372. "Home". Greatbustard...
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    (subscription required) Bewick, Thomas (1847) [1804]. A History of British Birds, Volume 2, Water Birds. Newcastle: R. E. Bewick. p. 49. Cocker, Mark; Mabey...
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    the crossbills were described as "unknown" in England). The engraver Thomas Bewick wrote that "It sometimes is met with in great numbers in this country...
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    Eighteenth Century Criminal Biography". Law, Crime and History. 6: 2: 54–70. Bewick, et al. Robin Hood : a Collection of All the Ancient Poems, Songs, and Ballads...
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    The surname Bewick, alternately found as Buick, Buik, Bewicke, Bewike and Buicke, is ultimately of English origin, but later made its way to Scotland and...
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    days. Fulmars have for centuries been hunted for food. The engraver Thomas Bewick wrote in 1804 that "Pennant, speaking of those [birds] which breed on...
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    2016-04-23. Retrieved 2014-12-31. Bewick, Thomas (1847) [1804]. A History of British Birds, Volume II, "Water Birds". R. E. Bewick. p. 44. Haines, Perry (20 August...
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    1833. p.36 Bewick, 2 volumes, 1797 and 1804. Bewick, 1797. p. 22 Bewick, 1804. p. 170 Bewick, 1804. p. 165 Mabey, 1986. pp. 106–107 "Thomas Pennant: A...
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  • Jane Bewick (1787–1881) was the eldest daughter of Isabella and wood-engraver Thomas Bewick. She edited her father's biography and supervised his works...
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    was heavily illustrated with woodcuts, attributed in one source to Thomas Bewick. In the northern counties of England, the song was often called the...
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    London People Illustrators John James Audubon (The Birds of America) Thomas Bewick John Gould Lars Jonsson John Gerrard Keulemans Edward Lear Richard Lewington...
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    Retrieved 29 April 2010. Bewick, Thomas (1847) [1804]. A History of British Birds. Vol. 2: Water Birds. Newcastle: R.E. Bewick. pp. 405–406. Linnaeus,...
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    cottage in Mickley, Northumberland, England. It was the birthplace of Thomas Bewick, an English wood engraver and ornithologist. The cottage, its adjacent...
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    and 1813. The originally Older Scots "cornecrake" was popularised by Thomas Bewick, who used this term in his 1797 A History of British Birds. Other Scots...
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    Army Recruiting and Initial Training Command 2021–2022 Succeeded by Thomas Bewick Preceded by Christopher Tickell Deputy Chief of the General Staff 2022–2024...
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  • critically acclaimed biographies of Elizabeth Gaskell, William Hogarth, Thomas Bewick, and Edward Lear, and a history and joint biography of the Lunar Society...
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    years ago in Italy were made from boxwood. The British wood-engraver Thomas Bewick pioneered the use of boxwood blocks for wood-engraving. In Old English...
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