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Thomas Bewick

English engraver and natural history author (1753-1828)

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Images from the collections

Images by Thomas Bewick

6 images from works
  • A family herbal: or, Familiar account of the medical properties of British and foreign plants, also their uses in dying, and the various arts, arranged according to the Linnaean system / [Robert John Thornton].
  • Above, a Zebra; below, a Hippopotamus and a Tapir. Wood-engraving after T. Bewick.
  • A hind and a stag of the family of Red-Deer and a Fallow-deer. Wood-engraving after T. Bewick.
  • Above, a horse; below, a bull and an ass. Wood-engraving after T. Bewick.
  • Above, a Swallow Tailed Falcon, middle, a Lanner, below, a Malabar Shrike. Wood engraving after T. Bewick.
  • Left, an eagle; right, a dodo. Wood-engraving after T. Bewick.

Images featuring Thomas Bewick

1 image from works
  • Thomas Bewick. Line engraving by F. Bacon after J. Ramsay.

Works from the collections

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218 works

    • Pictures

    A urus or aurochs. Wood-engraving by T. Bewick, 178-.

    Bewick, Thomas, 1753-1828. | Date: [between 1790 and 1799?] | Reference: 750340i
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    An Irish greyhound. Wood-engraving by T. Bewick, 178-.

    Bewick, Thomas, 1753-1828. | Date: [between 1790 and 1799?] | Reference: 750320i
    • Pictures

    A boar. Wood-engraving by T. Bewick, 178-.

    Bewick, Thomas, 1753-1828. | Date: [between 1790 and 1799?] | Reference: 750583i
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    A springbok. Wood-engraving by T. Bewick, 178-.

    Bewick, Thomas, 1753-1828. | Date: [between 1790 and 1799?] | Reference: 750493i
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    An African boar. Wood-engraving by T. Bewick, 178-.

    Bewick, Thomas, 1753-1828. | Date: [between 1790 and 1799?] | Reference: 750584i

Frequent collaborators

Ralph Beilby
Gilbert White
Samuel Williams
Cotes, Henry

Related topics

Natural History
United Kingdom
Mammals
Goats
Sheep
Dogs
Zoology
Birds
Spaniels
Sus scrofa

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