Nature's engraver : a life of Thomas Bewick / Jenny Uglow
- Bib ID:
- 3883623
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Uglow, Jennifer S
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- London : Faber and Faber, 2006
- xix, 458 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780571223749
- 0571223745
- Summary:
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"A biography of the artist whose miniature creations changed the way we view the natural world." "At the end of the eighteenth century Britain fell in love with nature. Two books marked this moment - Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne and Thomas Bewick's History of British Birds, the first 'field guide' for ordinary people, illustrated by woodcuts of astonishing accuracy and beauty. In the vivid vignettes scattered through his book Bewick drew the life of the country people of the north-east, children and farmers, travelling musicians, old soldiers and beggars, housewives and fishermen - a world already vanishing under the threat of enclosures." "In this illustrated life, Jenny Uglow tells the story of the farmer's son from Tyneside who never courted fame yet revolutionised wood engraving and influenced book illustration for a century to come. It is a story of violent change and radical politics of Newcastle and the Tyne, workshops and family life, mines and fells, the sea and the fierce west winds - a journey into a past whose energy and power still haunt us today, and the beginning of our lasting obsession with the natural world."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: I Source
- : The Banks of the Tyne 3
- a Nature and Drawing 17
- 3 The Commron 27
- 4 Belby's Wild Lad' 39
- 5 Life in the Town 54
- 6 Pretty Histoies 64
- 7 God Gave the Earth o You' 77
- II Stream
- 8 North and South 91
- a Partner o106
- ito 'Esto Perpetua!' II8
- ri Wraking 129
- ir Bell and John 141
- 13 Among the Animals 532
- [4 Quadrupeds 172
- III Flood
- r5 From Fur to Feathers 189
- i6 'Your Lads' 0oi
- 17 'Red Nightcap Days' 2 7
- 18 Daily Bread 2z9
- 1) Land Birds z42
- 2o On His Own z6z
- 2r Home and Friends zSo
- IV Tide
- zz Water Birds i 9
- 23 'With Bewick, I Was Then happy' 306
- 24 Back to Business 321
- z2 Shifting Ground 329
- ł6 Fame, Fables and Apprentices 336
- 27 Taking Stock 353
- z8 Salmon and Swallows 366
- z9 SoTire ed 377.
- Notes:
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- Formerly CIP.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2006
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