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 (redirect from A History of British Birds (Bewick))
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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(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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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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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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(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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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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Jonathan Couch (redirect from Thomas Quiller Couch)
naturalists, and especially rendered aid to Thomas Bewick and to William Yarrell. Another correspondent was Thomas Edward, of Banff, who sent him numerous...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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craftsmanship in that field. In 1767 Thomas Bewick was apprenticed to him. They became partners 10 years later. The texts in Bewick's A General History of Quadrupeds...
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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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weeps when he accidentally crushes a bird's egg, is derived from a Thomas Bewick tail-piece (pictured) in his History of British Birds. This is a homage...
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Robert Elliot Bewick (1788–1849) was the son of the engraver Thomas Bewick. He was trained in engraving by his father, but is primarily remembered now...
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