Accession number
PML 9919
Creator
Bewick, Thomas, 1753-1828.
Published
[Newcastle : Thomas Bewick, 1790-1819]
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Individual prints comprising this collection have been cataloged separately (see PML 9919.1-15).
Individual prints comprising this collection have been cataloged separately (see PML 9919.1-15).
Description
16 prints (on 15 sheets) : wood and copperplate engravings ; 280 x 200 mm, or smaller.
Provenance
Bookplate of J.P. Morgan; Toovey Collection.
Summary
Collection of 16 individual impressions of engravings, 14 of them from woodblocks by or after Bewick, and one of them ("Kyloe ox") from an engraving on copper; accompanied by two portraits of Bewick, one engraved on copper by Thomas Frazer Ransome after the painting by William Nicholson. Wood engraving include multiple impressions from single woodblocks, most of them without letterpress and many of them printed on vellum or white satin.
Binding
Loose sheets housed in blue cloth portfolio..
Classification
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