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See also:BEWICK, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS (1753-1828) , See also:English See also:wood-engraver, was See also:born at Cherryburn, near See also:Newcastle-on-See also:Tyne, in See also:August 1753. His See also:father rented a small colliery at Mickleybank, and sent his son to. school at Mickley. He proved a poor See also:scholar, but showed, at a very See also:early See also:age, a remarkable See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent for See also:drawing. He had no tuition in the See also:art, and no See also:models See also:save natural See also:objects. At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed to Mr Beilby, an engraver in Newcastle. In his See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office Bewick engraved on wood for Dr See also:Hutton a See also:series of diagrams illustrating a See also:treatise on See also:mensuration. He seems thereafter to have devoted himself entirely to See also:engraving on wood, and in 1775 he received a See also:premium from the Society for the Encouragement of Arts and Manufactures for a woodcut of the " See also:Huntsman and the Old See also:Hound." In 1784 appeared his Select Fables, the engravings in which, though far surpassed by his later productions, were incomparably See also:superior to anything that had yet been done in that See also:line. The Quadrupeds appeared in 1790, and his See also:great achievement, that with which his name is inseparably associated, the See also:British Birds, was published from 1797-1804. Bewick, from his intimate knowledge of the habits of animals acquired during his See also:constant excursions into the See also:country, was thoroughly qualified to do See also:justice to his great task. Of his other productions the engravings for See also:Goldsmith's Traveller and Deserted See also:Village, for See also:Parnell's See also:Hermit, for See also:Somerville's See also:Chase, and for the collection of Fables of See also:Aesop and Others, may be specially mentioned. Bewick was for many years in See also:partnership with his former See also:master, and in later See also:life had numerous pupils, several of whom gained distinction as engravers. He died on the 8th of See also:November 1828.
His autobiography, See also:Memoirs of Thomas Bewick, by Himself, appeared in 1862.
End of Article: BEWICK, THOMAS (1753-1828)
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