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Article: Jenny Uglo. Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick.
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- July 1, 2007
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JENNY UGLO. Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick. London: Faber & Faber, 2006. xx, 460 pp. isbn 978-0-571-22374-9; 0-571-22374-5. 20 [pounds sterling].
Thomas Bewick was born on a farm near Newcastle in 1753, a pre-industrial world that today enchants us because it seems so impossibly remote. He was apprenticed in Newcastle to Ralph Beilby, a local engraver, and although he was to achieve international fame after the publication of the General History of Quadrupeds (1790), he remained a deliberately provincial figure: he distrusted the larger world of London, and whenever he visited it, he always fled back to Newcastle as quickly as possible. Like ...