Accession number
PML 9919.4
Creator
Bewick, Thomas, 1753-1828.
Published
[Newcastle? : s.n., ca. 181-?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Printed on vellum.
Wood engraving after an earlier design cut by Bewick in 1799 to illustrate a broadside and guidebook advertising Gilbert Pidcock's Royal Menagerie.
"... probably done by [William] Temple, and received a few final touches from Bewick's hand. The differences in the body of the animal itself from the previous article, though minute, are easily discernible; and there is, as already stated, a background of trees, etc., which is not in that executed for Mr. Pidcock."--Hugo.
One of a collection of 15 wood and intaglio engravings by or after Thomas Bewick (see PML 9919); the individual prints comprising the collection each cataloged separately.
Wood engraving after an earlier design cut by Bewick in 1799 to illustrate a broadside and guidebook advertising Gilbert Pidcock's Royal Menagerie.
"... probably done by [William] Temple, and received a few final touches from Bewick's hand. The differences in the body of the animal itself from the previous article, though minute, are easily discernible; and there is, as already stated, a background of trees, etc., which is not in that executed for Mr. Pidcock."--Hugo.
One of a collection of 15 wood and intaglio engravings by or after Thomas Bewick (see PML 9919); the individual prints comprising the collection each cataloged separately.
Description
1 print : wood engraving ; image: approx. 94 x 173 mm; sheet: 243 x 333 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a standing tiger facing left, face turned towards the viewer, with a landscape of palm and pine trees visible in the background.
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