Article: Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick.(Brief article)(Book review)

Article: Scholar of the woods and fields BIOGRAPHY Nature's Engraver By ...
The Independent on Sunday;  October 8, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Thomas Bewick's woodcuts, as Jenny Uglow says, capture moments ... sensibility, that makes Jenny Uglow the perfect biographer ... powerful vision. Jenny Uglow is a publisher as ... worthy tribute to Thomas Bewick and a delicious treat ...

Article: Plain man's art; Thomas Bewick.(Book review)
The Economist (US);  May 26, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... scientifically inclined public wanted. Jenny Uglow's evocation of the mood of his ... never draws attention to itself. In Thomas Bewick one feels that she has found a subject ... Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick. By Jenny Uglow.

Article: Bewick Biographer Wins Literary Prize; Jenny Uglow ...
The Washington Post;  April 18, 2008 ;     700+ words ...The English engraver Thomas Bewick never expected that his vivid, detailed woodcuts ... National Award for Arts Writing had gone to Jenny Uglow's "Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick," published in this country by Farrar, Straus ...

Article: On the road with an artist of the living world ; Nature's ...
The Independent - London;  November 3, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... staff. The 18th-century artist, Thomas Bewick, would have been delighted. A central ... distance hinting of a fate foretold. Jenny Uglow's affectionate biography gives us ... insurrectionary views. As with all Jenny Uglow's books, there is the now familiar ...

Article: Carving out history ..... Nature's Engraver by Jenny ...
The Mail on Sunday (London, England);  November 12, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Gurney was taken to visit the celebrated artist and engraver Thomas Bewick in 1802, she was deeply disappointed. His workshop, she ... in from the farmyard and trample over her clean laundry. Jenny Uglow's biography is lavishly illustrated with Bewick's vignettes ...

Article: An engraver's life; Thomas Bewick's nature-focused ...
The Washington Times;  October 14, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... woodblocks was the norm. Britain's Thomas Bewick (1753-1828) is acknowledged ... what, in Nature's Engraver, Jenny Uglow describes as his instinctive ... A plain, no-nonsense man, Thomas Bewick was the son of a farmer, devoted ...

Article: Artist makes his mark on history; The strange world of 18th ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  April 21, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... attention to the late 18th century Northumbrian wood engraver, Thomas Bewick (1753- 1828). It is certainly the first exhibition I ... Klinger. Bewick has also recently caught the attention of Jenny Uglow, chronicler of his contemporaries in Birmingham's Lunar ...