Accession number
PML 9919.15
Creator
Bewick, Thomas, 1753-1828, engraver.
Published
[Newcastle? : s.n., ca. 1820?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Printed on silk mounted on paper.
One of a collection of 15 wood and intaglio engravings by, after, or relating to Thomas Bewick (see PML 9919); the individual prints comprising the collection each cataloged separately.
One of a collection of 15 wood and intaglio engravings by, after, or relating to Thomas Bewick (see PML 9919); the individual prints comprising the collection each cataloged separately.
Description
2 prints (on 1 sheet) : wood engraving ; image: 100 x 100 mm; image: 66 x 93 mm, lower; on silk: 253 x 216 mm; sheet: 289 x 243 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Upper portion of sheet: Half-length seated portrait of Thomas Bewick facing 3/4 to the left, portrait drawn on the block by William Nicholson and engraved by Charlton Nesbit; below: vignette of the Old Exchange in Newcastle. Portrait featured as a frontispiece and vignette printed on the t.p. in: Select fables : with cuts, designed and engraved by Thomas and John Bewick. Newcastle : S. Hodgson for E. Charnley, 1820.
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