tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19865269135673795192024-03-13T11:54:44.187+00:00Tale-piecesThe Blog of the Bewick SocietyThe Bewick Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13438705471412479250noreply@blogger.comBlogger248125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1986526913567379519.post-30765443558298373142024-01-23T15:38:00.004+00:002024-01-23T21:50:00.562+00:00On-Site/Off-Site<p> </p><div><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB4hIl9P6YBp0ZJLU2-ww3BX2b1Eoppz0as7cygAMQnATpG_Lp7Mq71VPR7FLiP2zkVbMisyTdnQVOCScq6WZEMIPTun6VLXLag3kQdvkTQVsVtX5_H4uiDu4mYa8wnqYS6LJlH9xilnDw8pnG0W2rPXOO0UdDg5d8gYykvLxI-DObHgwQG3pwjtumbSm-/s1253/Ruth%20Ewan%20Thomas%20Spence%20poster.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="847" data-original-width="1253" height="432" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB4hIl9P6YBp0ZJLU2-ww3BX2b1Eoppz0as7cygAMQnATpG_Lp7Mq71VPR7FLiP2zkVbMisyTdnQVOCScq6WZEMIPTun6VLXLag3kQdvkTQVsVtX5_H4uiDu4mYa8wnqYS6LJlH9xilnDw8pnG0W2rPXOO0UdDg5d8gYykvLxI-DObHgwQG3pwjtumbSm-/w640-h432/Ruth%20Ewan%20Thomas%20Spence%20poster.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />On-Site/Off-Site</b> is funded by the Arts & Humanities
Research Council, and developed and delivered by Newcastle University
in partnership with project partners the National Trust, The Bewick
Society and Arts&Heritage. The artists involved are Marcus Coates,
Mark Fairnington, Hanna Tuulikki and Ruth Ewan, with digital producers
Mnemoscene working with Mark Fairnington.</div><div> </div><div>The art works are now all available online. </div><div> </div><div>Please explore each of the links below. (You may get a 'redirection' warning. Do click through)<br /> <br /> <ul style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 15px;">Marcus Coates - <i>Video Conference for the Birds</i> - <a href="https://research.ncl.ac.uk/on-site-off-site/re-presentations/videoconferenceforthebirds/">https://research.ncl.ac.uk/on-site-off-site/re-presentations/videoconferenceforthebirds/</a></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 15px;">Mark Fairnington - <i>Good Morning Mr Bewic</i>k - <a href="https://www.goodmorningmrbewick.com/" target="_blank">https://www.goodmorningmrbewick.com</a></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 15px;">Hanna Tuulikki – <i>Avi-Alarm</i> - <a href="https://www.instagram.com/hanna_tuulikki/" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/hanna_tuulikki/</a></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 15px;">Ruth Ewan - <i>Against the Grain</i> - <a href="https://www.ruthewan.com/against-the-grain/" target="_blank">https://www.ruthewan.com/against-the-grain/ </a><br /></li></ul> <br /> <br />
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<div>You can read more about the project as a whole here: <a href="https://research.ncl.ac.uk/on-site-off-site/" target="_blank">https://research.ncl.ac.uk/on-site-off-site/ </a></div><div> </div><div>Top Image: Ruth Ewan, Poster for <i>Against the Grain</i>.</div><div> </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVxmZ_TMCx0nPaO9VpUt1RpxCgooU2-PvhqFZ6L25A5DSG4vI_1o38nZ_VSCyJfsBsrBDLJCSPkCfRJnetvPAcbrnbjUANMlchfu_wlV__hgFeue41YAF0C2EqmVGjQV7BxZG6RHM4V6FHX9qBaWdAGYFSDs6E1_tG0-Ygkhxvd7KYrPBheCJpKtT52vk9/s818/Great-black-backed-gull-Video-conference-for-the-Birds.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="428" data-original-width="818" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVxmZ_TMCx0nPaO9VpUt1RpxCgooU2-PvhqFZ6L25A5DSG4vI_1o38nZ_VSCyJfsBsrBDLJCSPkCfRJnetvPAcbrnbjUANMlchfu_wlV__hgFeue41YAF0C2EqmVGjQV7BxZG6RHM4V6FHX9qBaWdAGYFSDs6E1_tG0-Ygkhxvd7KYrPBheCJpKtT52vk9/w640-h334/Great-black-backed-gull-Video-conference-for-the-Birds.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> Marcus Coates, <i>Video Conference for the Birds</i>.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvBhqblSBQJR4DmQepckNGEpEuJIXEhv1Cp0P8sF2AZhRwpQJZb8Ucl6oAwkK96gSBy2DPNlH4D6mciLWsRCEpODGFe2peQkYrbtG_AoOprMwDzBHC-w-oIAGf0Eu_sJhu4zGibXNfalGNhWc3LuxIRv3cOKjor1Rkx1LfRECzLiONnIDXqHS1czvb_bAu/s1004/Mark%20F%20Good%20Morning%20Mr%20Bewick.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="866" data-original-width="1004" height="552" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvBhqblSBQJR4DmQepckNGEpEuJIXEhv1Cp0P8sF2AZhRwpQJZb8Ucl6oAwkK96gSBy2DPNlH4D6mciLWsRCEpODGFe2peQkYrbtG_AoOprMwDzBHC-w-oIAGf0Eu_sJhu4zGibXNfalGNhWc3LuxIRv3cOKjor1Rkx1LfRECzLiONnIDXqHS1czvb_bAu/w640-h552/Mark%20F%20Good%20Morning%20Mr%20Bewick.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div>Mark Fairnington, <i>Good Morning, Mr. Bewick</i>.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMmykTsNsPzdmzT1U9A_nfIhQwZxX2nsaTZMC1sNtRhAHVbbA3Neg20MefzWaCFYDDyCqIbuaE4WWCrv0CmjrXY6OzVo6x8bQZcjktqjx2pssqrgR9C_X29WTRBqlGFhyB9Qwk290GfwgYuiC0n8Pkjbacgr1k_XcgT-TQR4HzkfGcdGYLC1E3utda2Jku/s847/Hana%20T%20Avi%20Alarm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="847" data-original-width="513" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMmykTsNsPzdmzT1U9A_nfIhQwZxX2nsaTZMC1sNtRhAHVbbA3Neg20MefzWaCFYDDyCqIbuaE4WWCrv0CmjrXY6OzVo6x8bQZcjktqjx2pssqrgR9C_X29WTRBqlGFhyB9Qwk290GfwgYuiC0n8Pkjbacgr1k_XcgT-TQR4HzkfGcdGYLC1E3utda2Jku/w388-h640/Hana%20T%20Avi%20Alarm.jpg" width="388" /></a></div>Hanna Tuulikki – <i>Avi-Alarm</i><div> </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>The Bewick Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13438705471412479250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1986526913567379519.post-87635262360373208532023-06-28T13:07:00.004+01:002023-06-28T13:09:43.488+01:00World in the Palm of Your Hand<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxUBYJMhtqYw72t6Be3BI8GpAK0WauzVGid0G7Jjo_uKQMn-ZxCD8J-X4OGjM5kZMpF7hHQyXmyTfQkF4HWKM7Taqp9uxfsrdkF_ao4YcBuodzhVloaN2jwDSGg9u7XW2CLHMbvKgSl9L1x9asRt8nkIinMEmgznNAJJ7GoCWNueayIpAJ2NntNHI24rzH/s5472/IMG_9068.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="5472" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxUBYJMhtqYw72t6Be3BI8GpAK0WauzVGid0G7Jjo_uKQMn-ZxCD8J-X4OGjM5kZMpF7hHQyXmyTfQkF4HWKM7Taqp9uxfsrdkF_ao4YcBuodzhVloaN2jwDSGg9u7XW2CLHMbvKgSl9L1x9asRt8nkIinMEmgznNAJJ7GoCWNueayIpAJ2NntNHI24rzH/w640-h360/IMG_9068.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Our film for the exhibition the World in the Palm of Your Hand, Harbin, China.</span></div><p></p><p><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap" role="text"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="color: #131313;">The World in the Palm of your Hand: An Exhibition of British Wood Engravings to mark the 270th Anniversary of the birth of Thomas Bewick.
Over 100 prints of Thomas Bewick, early editions of his books, trade blocks and prints plus wood engravings by 28 current SWE members. </span></span><span style="color: #131313;">Until 30 SEPT 2023 </span></p><p><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap" role="text"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="color: #131313;">Curated by Weimin He. </span></span></p><p><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap" role="text"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="color: #131313;"> Supported by the National Trust, Cherryburn and the Bewick Society. Heilongjiang Museum of Printmaking, 30 Yaojing Street, Nangang District, Harbin, China. </span></span></p><p><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap" role="text"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" style="color: #131313;"> This film forms part of the exhibition. Made by Gary Malkin, it features Dr. Peter Quinn (Chair Bewick Society) and Chris Daunt (Society of Woodengravers). Click this link to open our page on You Tube.</span></span></p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/Pb11pP-MFfc" target="_blank"> Cherryburn</a></p>The Bewick Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13438705471412479250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1986526913567379519.post-1210123592668191912023-06-03T18:28:00.006+01:002023-06-03T18:31:03.656+01:00Cherryburn on Hidden Treasures<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxxZi7NbvfhpcfeVVbHdQw9JLTSrOqBsTh6qrPc1HxENHV7tbfHA9J2HKlxCX_ME7m0Epd2zWFlfgmwcR2p9bT6PZXVPPc60nCDuYhnE_w1HP0QK8v9g6M8EgWJwpAtDIpZghGItck8EJFUiBodJHLHL_TwvaY92QsdOp2ddvMijnh8JKrclHB7gB7Fw/s2560/Screenshot%202023-06-03%20at%2018.25.38.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1387" data-original-width="2560" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxxZi7NbvfhpcfeVVbHdQw9JLTSrOqBsTh6qrPc1HxENHV7tbfHA9J2HKlxCX_ME7m0Epd2zWFlfgmwcR2p9bT6PZXVPPc60nCDuYhnE_w1HP0QK8v9g6M8EgWJwpAtDIpZghGItck8EJFUiBodJHLHL_TwvaY92QsdOp2ddvMijnh8JKrclHB7gB7Fw/s320/Screenshot%202023-06-03%20at%2018.25.38.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><b>Hidden Treasures of the National Trust. </b><p></p><p>Blast! Films for BBC2. </p><p>59 minutes.</p><span class="tvip-hide">First shown </span><span class="episode-metadata__text">9pm 2 Jun 2023. </span><br /><p>Available for over a year on BBCIplayer (viewers in UK).</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001mg5w/hidden-treasures-of-the-national-trust-series-1-episode-4" target="_blank">Click here to view.</a></p>The Bewick Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13438705471412479250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1986526913567379519.post-10651598341985021552021-09-07T12:23:00.001+01:002021-09-07T12:23:07.662+01:00Children Riding Gravestones, George Shaw & Thomas Bewick<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;">Children Riding Gravestones</span></span></p><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">George Shaw & Thomas Bewick </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">at </span><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl q66pz984 gpro0wi8 b1v8xokw" href="https://www.facebook.com/lglondon2hanwayplace/?__cft__[0]=AZVbnuMQf5G1tGO1ZEN-H_chLI971HqnOQdwOwA_sizc-vzWDX8qltcs42b46XolcJNLHfkpTxisuZg02Azv0axipsqSSZJYpreXMiWvy3oya7imxG8vQ5Ue8bFcXvxEgSGNaWd__iU2-PkH-QNqDTVYnYCmQj7k4mwYDDqtBU12tw&__tn__=kK-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: georgia; font-size: large; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><span class="nc684nl6" style="display: inline;">LGLondon</span></a></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">11 September – 6 November 2021</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">PV Friday 10 September, 6-8pm</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Curated by Jonathan Watkins</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pHbe387fQ3I/YTdK_SXIgRI/AAAAAAAAAvg/BT2qm_80m8kt_hSR8ghVXzgm1Hj1bFPgQCNcBGAsYHQ/s700/86_unnamed-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="403" data-original-width="700" height="368" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pHbe387fQ3I/YTdK_SXIgRI/AAAAAAAAAvg/BT2qm_80m8kt_hSR8ghVXzgm1Hj1bFPgQCNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h368/86_unnamed-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">From the gallery website:</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left;"><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;">'</span><span style="font-size: medium;">This exhibition combines the work of two English artists, George Shaw and Thomas Bewick. The latter is a historical figure, working around the turn of the 19th century, renowned for his wood engravings, especially natural history illustrations of birds and other animals. Shaw on the other hand, emerged as an artist during the 1990s with a distinct figurative style, depicting everyday suburban scenes in modelling paint. Since then he has consistently produced paintings loaded with atmosphere, at once compelling and uneasy, often in the light of evening or an overcast sky. Roads and pavements shine with the reflections which come after rain. There are semi-detached houses, high-rise and low-rise estates, complete with pubs and community halls, playgrounds and the box-like buildings of comprehensive schools. Shaw’s paintings of woods are perhaps the most evocative. They are the spaces in between built-up areas, or land awaiting development – where children and adolescents are freer, after school or on holidays. These are the kinds of places where the artist, like millions of others, grew up – or rather this is how they are remembered.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://lglondon.org/files/PR%20Shaw%20&%20Bewick.pdf">Press Release</a>'<br /><br /><br />Bewick similarly depicts the landscape of his childhood, the Tyne Valley west of Newcastle, in small vignettes he referred to as “tale-pieces”. They provide invaluable insight into not only the imagination and wit of the artist but also aspects of contemporary social history, especially rural life in the early nineteenth century. Bewick, a sceptical individual unimpressed by institutions, he shows us a man pissing against a section of Hadrian’s Wall, children riding gravestones as if they were hobby-horses, a donkey rubbing himself against a memorial erected to celebrate a “splendid (military] victory”, a scarecrow dressed in a soldier’s uniform and so on; all wonderful observations on all-too-human vanity. One vignette simply depicts a stone, on which is inscribed the tough statement, “This stone (like many men in this world) has held up its bare useless head for many centuries past.” On the other hand, there is a delightful vignette of a drunkard seeing two moons in the night sky. At the very end of his life, Bewick made two especially poignant prints; one of a funeral procession making its way down towards a riverbank where there is a boat waiting to take the coffin; the other of a horse, frail and fearful, starkly entitled “Waiting for Death”.<br /><br /><br />Despite the centuries separating them, the two artists have much in common. They share an attention to detail and a philosophical sense of humour often with references to mortality. Like Bewick, Shaw has made a number of pictures of gravestones and most recently a series of watercolours entitled 'A History of Dead British Birds'. He explains, “They obviously reference Bewick’s Birds but I wasn’t thinking of that when I started making them .... The blackbirds nest triptych tells a sad tale of a growing nest turning to an empty nest with little to show for it but a few feathers and bits of bones.” Bewick’s images often feature people. Usually Shaw’s do not, but we see where people have been and the absence is affecting. In this respect, Plein Air, included in this exhibition is exceptional – also because it is directly inspired by Bewick. Here we see the artist from behind, in a woodland throwing his shadow up a tree trunk. He is pissing on it.<br /><br /><br />Image credits: Thomas Bewick, untitled wood engraving, c.1810-20; George Shaw, Plein Air, humbrol enamel on board, 2018</span></p></div></blockquote>The Bewick Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13438705471412479250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1986526913567379519.post-15416501741978749522021-05-16T12:26:00.002+01:002021-05-16T12:27:19.903+01:00William Cobbett (1763-1838)<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Controversial journalist/writer, politician and agriculturalist: devotee of Thomas Bewick. <br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">(Publishing Office for the</span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Porcupine </i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">3, Southampton Street 1800; Pall Mall 1801-03; Ratepayer 11, Pall Mall 1800-02; 11, Bolt Court, off Fleet St. in 1802). </span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Illustration: St James's Palace and Pall Mall, Samuel Scott (c.1702–1772) (style of) Walker Art Gallery.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ikuQRKTRmOE/YKD4HzJBWnI/AAAAAAAAAtY/IMgR4Tw9V4g6HAUucDdM_GXB1GsYx7t9ACNcBGAsYHQ/s1000/NML_WARG_WAG_9826-001.jpg"><img border="0" data-original-height="588" data-original-width="1000" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ikuQRKTRmOE/YKD4HzJBWnI/AAAAAAAAAtY/IMgR4Tw9V4g6HAUucDdM_GXB1GsYx7t9ACNcBGAsYHQ/s320/NML_WARG_WAG_9826-001.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="p5" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;">Avoiding indictment and imprisonment in England for his outspoken views on corruption within the army; with his wife Anne, William Cobbett hurriedly left for France in March 1792. The French Revolution and war the greater danger, the couple again set sail in September 1792, this time for America. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;">Starting out uneventfully at Wilmington, a small port on the Delaware about 30 miles from Philadelphia. A move and new home in Philadelphia, the national capital; with the cream of the social and political elite to take on, set the scene for William Cobbett’s 1794 attack on scientist and democrat Joseph Priestley. Getting into his stride, in 1795 Cobbett published: </span><i style="text-align: left;">A Bone to Gnaw for the Democrats,</i><span style="text-align: left;"> in which he took to task the pro-French Democratic Party</span><i style="text-align: left;">.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i></span></p><p class="p7" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Opening his bookstore in 1796, at 25 North Second Street Philadelphia, (he was thereafter known as <i>Peter Porcupine</i>); Cobbett spent years hurling his printed invective in all directions, new world and old. A political storm followed, which the provocative displays in the bookshop window did nothing to lessen. Cobbett re-published violent loyalist literature and attacked establishment figures such as two of the signatories to the declaration of independence, Thomas McKean and Dr Benjamin Rush. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Arrest, release, re-arrest in 1797 for attacking the Spanish King in the<i> Porcupine Gazette;</i> Cobbett<i> </i>got off by just one vote of the grand jury. In the end, his luck ran out. Chief Justice McKean and Rush finished him off to the tune of a $8,000 criminal libel judgement, making another quick departure necessary. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Outside Philadelphia jurisdiction, he headed for New York. Hasty realisation of assets – probably including shop stock – without much thought to paying the $8,000 judgement; Cobbett, with wife Anne and children (Anne and William) left America sailing for England in 1800. Arriving, via Halifax on 11 June and Nova Scotia, the family landed at Falmouth, Cornwall; Cobbett a triumphantly received celebrity.</span><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;">On his voyage home from America he had to hand volume one of A History of British Birds. We can speculate that the vignettes may have reminded him of home. They may have chimed with his own political concerns. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tc_OTUEASe4/YKD88tAX2vI/AAAAAAAAAt0/eUW8RxA3J4kQc0STQWgyVoZ9xNl16aLEACNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/img0017.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1886" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tc_OTUEASe4/YKD88tAX2vI/AAAAAAAAAt0/eUW8RxA3J4kQc0STQWgyVoZ9xNl16aLEACNcBGAsYHQ/s320/img0017.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;"> <br /></span><span style="text-align: left;">Volume one was purchased by Lloyd Kenyon, 1</span><sup style="text-align: left;">st</sup><span style="text-align: left;"> Baron of Gredington. The hurried scrawl describes, William Cobbett’s own copy of:</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="text-align: left;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;">Bewick’s </span><i style="text-align: left;">History of British Land Birds </i><span style="text-align: left;">1797.</span></span></p><p class="p7" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><i style="text-align: left;"><br /></i></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="p7" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="text-align: left;">“Bought from Will</i><span class="s3" style="font-family: "Lucida Grande"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: left;">ᵐ</span><i style="text-align: left;">Cobbett<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="p5" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">at his shop The Bible & Crown<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></p><p class="p5" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Pall Mall 1801</span></i></p><p class="p5" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">He brought this book with him<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></p><p class="p5" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">from America when he came<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></p><p class="p5" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">back to England and said</span></i></p><p class="p5" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">~Sir, the curse of rebellion<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></p><p class="p5" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">still hangs over that divided<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></p><p class="p5" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">country where their birds<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></p><p class="p5" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">have no song &<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i></p><p class="p5" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">their flowers no fragrance”</span></i></p></blockquote><p class="p5" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px; text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px; text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IzPTBIKtyCg/YKD4JGJR73I/AAAAAAAAAts/WDtFOMCt6yYgCn2HWqN4P7Kpra-zFQftACPcBGAYYCw/s2048/Cobbett%2BBirds%2B1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IzPTBIKtyCg/YKD4JGJR73I/AAAAAAAAAts/WDtFOMCt6yYgCn2HWqN4P7Kpra-zFQftACPcBGAYYCw/s320/Cobbett%2BBirds%2B1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-W-5kU53C0-8/YKD4JAtUutI/AAAAAAAAAto/yAjEPTAhh9cuu14XOWBPCc1hj7SVdX0yACPcBGAYYCw/s2048/cobbett%2Bbirds%2B2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-W-5kU53C0-8/YKD4JAtUutI/AAAAAAAAAto/yAjEPTAhh9cuu14XOWBPCc1hj7SVdX0yACPcBGAYYCw/s320/cobbett%2Bbirds%2B2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Exactly why Kenyon wanted this ‘odd’ volume, and why Cobbett parted with it is not known, perhaps a souvenir of the notorious writer, or a reminder of recent events.</span></p><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 35.5px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 35.5px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Speeches of the Hon. Thomas Erskine, in the Court of King’s Bench, June 28 1797, before the Right Hon. Lloyd Lord Kenyon, and a special jury, on the trial the King versus Thomas Williams, for publishing the Age of Reason, written by Thomas Pain; together with Mr. Stewart Kyd’s reply, and Lord Kenyon’s charge to the jury. Philadelphia: printed for, and sold by William Cobbett […] 1797.</span></p></div><p class="p12" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px; text-align: left;"><br /></p><p class="p7" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Note Cobbett was in Philadelphia when Bewick published volume one. The volume was probably sent to him soon after publication. The book is bound in full roan in the American fashion. Probably by a Philadelphia binder such as Phillip Limeburner, who is noted as binding 98 copies in sheep of G. W. Snyder’s, <i>The Age of Reason unreasonable, </i>published by<i> </i>William Cobbett 1798.</span></p><p class="p5" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px; text-align: left;"><br /></p><p class="p5" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px; text-align: left;"><br /></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>History of British Birds | Land Birds | The Figures Engraved on Wood by T. Bewick | Vol. 1 | </i>[<i>…</i>]<i> | Land Birds | 1797 </i>(<i>but 1798</i>). Thick paper, royal 8vo.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Lloyd Kenyon, first Baron Kenyon’s bookplate. Inscription by Kenyon. Signature of Margaret Emma Kenyon, daughter in law of Lloyd Kenyon.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div></blockquote><p class="p5" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px; text-align: left;"><br /></p><p class="p5" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px; text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fIMoSGiw4Co/YKD4JG1uOfI/AAAAAAAAAtw/PQJCB4CxEc8nxVxmo-Nn-6l-eh8DkitTQCPcBGAYYCw/s2048/cobbett%2Bbirds%2B3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fIMoSGiw4Co/YKD4JG1uOfI/AAAAAAAAAtw/PQJCB4CxEc8nxVxmo-Nn-6l-eh8DkitTQCPcBGAYYCw/s320/cobbett%2Bbirds%2B3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p5" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p5" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">William Cobbett owned other books by Bewick: The <i>Quadrupeds </i>which were looked over by his children, and also the <i>Fables. </i>I would be interested to hear about <i>any </i>books, showing evidence of Cobbett’s ownership. So far, this seems to be the only example.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p5" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p7" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">During his ‘Rural Rides’ in 1832, he visited Newcastle-upon-Tyne and wrote:</span></p><p class="p13" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px; text-align: left;"><br /></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 35.5px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">‘a copy of the last performance of this so justly celebrated man … exhibiting a poor old horse just about to die, and preceded by an explanatory writing, which does as much honour to the heart of Bewick as the whole of his designs put together do to his genius. The sight of the picture, the reading of the preface to it, and the fact that it was the last effort of the man; altogether make it difficult to prevent tears from starting from the eyes of any one not uncommonly steeled with insensibility.’</span></p><p class="p5" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px; text-align: left;"><br /></p><h3 style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Graham Carlisle</span></h3>The Bewick Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13438705471412479250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1986526913567379519.post-38095279878757465492021-02-01T10:52:00.006+00:002021-02-01T10:52:54.008+00:00Jane Bewick and the Invention of the Lifeboat<p> You may remember Robin Adam’s article, <i><b>You cannot be serious, Mr Reay? The Bewicks Argue Intellectual Property</b></i> published in <a href="http://www.bewicksociety.org/Cherryburn%20Times%20pdfs/Volume%207%20Number%205%2078-4367%20CT%20Autumn%202019%20-%2016pp-v5.pdf" target="_blank">Cherryburn Times Volume 7 Number 5, Autumn 2019 <br /></a><br />Robin’s paper refers to a pamphlet called<i> The Sportsman’s Friend</i> illustrated by Thomas Bewick. The publication touches on the invention of the lifeboat at South Shields and there is a copy in the Natural History Society of Northumbria’s archive which is annotated by his daughter, Jane Bewick.</p><p>Jane Bewick’s manuscript notes vehemently dispute Henry Greathead’s claim to fame as the inventor of the first Lifeboat. Jane favoured a lowly parish clerk called William Wouldhave.<br /><br /><br /> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4NnF-cBFtlo/YBfbhScHc2I/AAAAAAAAArw/Fmzi9eYOvt4s5eDBJ2QNiwcL9Qv6WpY5ACNcBGAsYHQ/s1024/Lifeboat%2Bstoryweb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="316" data-original-width="1024" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4NnF-cBFtlo/YBfbhScHc2I/AAAAAAAAArw/Fmzi9eYOvt4s5eDBJ2QNiwcL9Qv6WpY5ACNcBGAsYHQ/s320/Lifeboat%2Bstoryweb.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z78abh0DQRc/YBfbhWcdCMI/AAAAAAAAAro/JYNYkyF2Y7AzPY5EYQ_ddFSC3oYhfLbjwCNcBGAsYHQ/s1024/Lifeboat%2BStory3web.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="308" data-original-width="1024" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z78abh0DQRc/YBfbhWcdCMI/AAAAAAAAAro/JYNYkyF2Y7AzPY5EYQ_ddFSC3oYhfLbjwCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/Lifeboat%2BStory3web.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pUWfTwEYFA4/YBfbhWRUUhI/AAAAAAAAArs/Se9m5iYYLoss6OHgf36mj6BYw9MvJagGQCNcBGAsYHQ/s1024/Lifeboat%2Bstory2web.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="218" data-original-width="1024" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pUWfTwEYFA4/YBfbhWRUUhI/AAAAAAAAArs/Se9m5iYYLoss6OHgf36mj6BYw9MvJagGQCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/Lifeboat%2Bstory2web.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><i>'Note by Jane Bewick – that Wm Wouldhave, of South Shields an ingenious and rather eccentric man, was the Inventor of the Life Boat. Greathead built the boat from Greathead’s model and took the credit, the profit and the rings, - and Wouldhave died a poor parish clerk. <br /><br />A pamphlet was published in Newcastle in his defence by – Hailes a schoolmaster. <br />All the intelligent people and others of South Shields knew this to be the fact. <br /> <br />I have seen Greathead in the street sticking out his fingers with the<br />ring — he was a great fool ! J Bewick'</i><br /> <br />I was browsing through Twitter this week and found a nice account of the Lifeboat story on YouTube by Tynemouth Lifeboat Coxswain Martin Kenny<br />I think you may find this as interesting as I did<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkUiu11MqFQ&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">A brief history of Lifeboats on the Tyne with Martin Kenny (CC) - YouTube</a> <p></p><p></p><p>June Holmes<br /><br /></p>The Bewick Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13438705471412479250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1986526913567379519.post-25129818351904248252020-12-01T10:01:00.000+00:002020-12-01T10:01:32.750+00:00The Society of Wood Engravers: A Founder’s book<p> </p><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="616ut" data-offset-key="fcljt-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="4mq94-0-0"><span data-offset-key="4mq94-0-0"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HZVyCAyoQrU/X8YTwGqDJjI/AAAAAAAAAqs/ya4txeNp3es4vxiUPDTR20g4k-jW2RsDACNcBGAsYHQ/s2598/cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2598" data-original-width="1955" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HZVyCAyoQrU/X8YTwGqDJjI/AAAAAAAAAqs/ya4txeNp3es4vxiUPDTR20g4k-jW2RsDACNcBGAsYHQ/s320/cover.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br /><span data-text="true">This year, The Society of Wood Engravers celebrates one hundred years since its foundation in 1920. Of the small group generally acknowledged as founder members there is one woman, Gwendolen Raverat (née Darwin), granddaughter of Charles Darwin. This is her book.</span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="616ut" data-offset-key="6modt-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6modt-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6modt-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="616ut" data-offset-key="9j97u-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9j97u-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9j97u-0-0"><span data-text="true">Part of a mixed lot in a sale around 2011, the book entered a fine Darwin collection in Toronto, Canada. As might reasonably be expected, unlikely to be seen again. However, much later as chance would have it, an internet search found the book returned to market and offered by a relative of the collector, who it transpired, was tasked to sell the less valuable items, including Bewick’s Fables. Terms agreed, and to save the bother and cost of postage (the collector was CEO of a brokerage house), the book was brought to London in his care. In true story book style, it was handed over on the floor of a London saleroom, minutes before we watched his Darwin books and manuscripts go under the hammer. The 1st edition copy of On the Origins of Species 1859, alone fetching £162,500 (including premium).<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LNIWniWCaHo/X8YTv94nVkI/AAAAAAAAAqo/1ivgIrNyBcsJniLSqRU8YYxqG_LxRr0aACNcBGAsYHQ/s2659/thumb%2Bpage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2659" data-original-width="2087" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LNIWniWCaHo/X8YTv94nVkI/AAAAAAAAAqo/1ivgIrNyBcsJniLSqRU8YYxqG_LxRr0aACNcBGAsYHQ/s320/thumb%2Bpage.jpg" /></a></div></span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="616ut" data-offset-key="d2o4j-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d2o4j-0-0"><span data-offset-key="d2o4j-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="616ut" data-offset-key="e38h2-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e38h2-0-0"><span data-offset-key="e38h2-0-0"><span data-text="true">Complete with an optional printed receipt signed by Thomas Bewick, The Fables of Aesop 1st edition 1818 is, with its association, an interesting copy. The untraced first owner, R [Robert] Charnley, is almost certainly related to the Newcastle bookseller Emerson Charnley; who subscribed for 82 Imperial paper copies such as this in 1815. In contrast to most first edition copies, within which the engravings were judged to be poorly printed, not least by Bewick, in this copy they are unusually sharp and clear. At the top of the receipt leaf, scrawled in faint but legible pencil, is the unsurprising bookseller notation: ‘This I consider the most perfect copy EC [Emerson Charnley]. </span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="616ut" data-offset-key="cbeqa-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="cbeqa-0-0"><span data-offset-key="cbeqa-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="616ut" data-offset-key="2q5n6-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2q5n6-0-0"><span data-offset-key="2q5n6-0-0"><span data-text="true">Next in order of provenance is the Rev. Thomas Paley. His daughter Mary came to prominence as one of the first women to take the Cambridge Tripos examination in 1874, achieving top marks, but as the rules stood, not permitted to receive a degree on account of her gender. After sitting the examination in Professor Kennedy’s Cambridge drawing room, the only evidence of her pass with honours was a confidential letter from her examiners. Of the four men who delivered Paley’s papers, one was her future husband, Alfred Marshall. At 25, Paley in 1875, became the first woman lecturer at Cambridge. During the first years of their marriage Alfred Marshall was fully supportive of higher education for women. In later years however, he turned against the idea; supporting the university’s discrimination against women. Later still, as entrenched minds were beginning to change, he obstructed Cambridge’s move towards giving women degrees; despite the views of friends, colleagues and Mary Paley Marshall’s unacknowledged contribution to his books and papers.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JfCQTB_0l0s/X8YTv7ZkkFI/AAAAAAAAAqk/ri8Q98k5_FcEvrqdNJa1KTrBwsEb-i-2gCNcBGAsYHQ/s3648/inscription.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2736" data-original-width="3648" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JfCQTB_0l0s/X8YTv7ZkkFI/AAAAAAAAAqk/ri8Q98k5_FcEvrqdNJa1KTrBwsEb-i-2gCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/inscription.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="616ut" data-offset-key="b4i6p-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b4i6p-0-0"><span data-offset-key="b4i6p-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="616ut" data-offset-key="9cbll-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9cbll-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9cbll-0-0"><span data-text="true">Inscribed by Gwendolen, who married Jacques Raverat in June 1911, the book is almost certainly a wedding gift, perhaps given on 31st May 1911 at Newnham Grange, Cambridge; where a vast party of some 350, which surely included the cream of the Bloomsbury set, were there to celebrate the wedding that took place a week later. At the party Ralph Vaughan Williams, a Darwin cousin, gave a William de Morgan vase.</span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="616ut" data-offset-key="67bsi-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="67bsi-0-0"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sVDj7jo1X_U/X8YTwwFqi5I/AAAAAAAAAqw/d7uI_Vo6rXEO67njumRpWcm23gNaUiKsgCNcBGAsYHQ/s3012/winter%2527s%2BDay%2B1917.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1644" data-original-width="3012" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sVDj7jo1X_U/X8YTwwFqi5I/AAAAAAAAAqw/d7uI_Vo6rXEO67njumRpWcm23gNaUiKsgCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/winter%2527s%2BDay%2B1917.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span data-offset-key="67bsi-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="616ut" data-offset-key="8drkf-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8drkf-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8drkf-0-0"><span data-text="true">Had she lived, I wonder what Mary Marshall would have thought of Gwen’s never out of print book: Period Piece, A Cambridge Childhood, 1952. A wry smile at this passage perhaps:</span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="616ut" data-offset-key="6qnp7-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6qnp7-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6qnp7-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="616ut" data-offset-key="1epmg-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1epmg-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1epmg-0-0"><span data-text="true">'It was here, at No. 31, that I discovered Bewick, […] and wishing passionately that I could have been Mrs. Bewick […] it did not seem impossibly outrageous to think of myself as Mrs. Bewick. […] Surely, I thought, if I cooked his roast beef beautifully and mended his clothes and minded the children – surely he would, just sometimes let me draw and engrave a little tailpiece for him.'</span></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="616ut" data-offset-key="8ipdg-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8ipdg-0-0"><span data-offset-key="8ipdg-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="616ut" data-offset-key="o8b1-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="o8b1-0-0"><span data-offset-key="o8b1-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="616ut" data-offset-key="1tbmf-0-0"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1tbmf-0-0"><span data-offset-key="1tbmf-0-0"><span data-text="true">Graham Carlisle</span></span></div></div>The Bewick Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13438705471412479250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1986526913567379519.post-67000434167678646052020-11-28T17:55:00.000+00:002020-11-28T17:55:10.030+00:00Cherryburn by J.W. Carmichael<div class="" dir="auto"><div class="ecm0bbzt hv4rvrfc ihqw7lf3 dati1w0a" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id="jsc_c_ar"><div class="j83agx80 cbu4d94t ew0dbk1b irj2b8pg"><div class="qzhwtbm6 knvmm38d"><p style="text-align: left;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"></span></p><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><h2 style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xtUd8uUaZN4/X8KOV3IJ4eI/AAAAAAAAAqM/3Md5lnZF4nUVu2SWcA6bGTw8gde2X-KMwCNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/cherryburn1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1621" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xtUd8uUaZN4/X8KOV3IJ4eI/AAAAAAAAAqM/3Md5lnZF4nUVu2SWcA6bGTw8gde2X-KMwCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/cherryburn1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Cherryburn Cottage by J W Carmichael</h2></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">James John Wilson Carmichael (1799-1868) prolific landscape painter, is today mostly admired for his large dramatic seascapes. Born in Newcastle, married at Ryton not far from Cherryburn, examples of his pictures in oil and watercolour are held in major institutions here and abroad. The Laing Art Gallery and Trinity House have fine early examples.</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Emulating his father, a shipwright, Carmichael was fortunate to secure an apprenticeship with Farrington Brothers as a carpenter; during the period they established a boat and shipbuilding business, sometime between 1810 and1820. Recognising his abilities, the Farringtons, who by one account are said to have given Carmichael his first box of water-colour paints, occasionally gave him the opportunity to assist in the drawing office.</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">In this enlightened atmosphere, Carmichael was exposed to a wide range of wood working skills: The firm's label, c. 1810, headed by a grand engraving of putti carving classical busts, reads: ‘FARRINGTONS, SHIP & HOUSE CARVERS, CABINET MAKERS, JOINERS, Looking Glass & Picture Frame Manufacturers & Gilders in General.’</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Carmichael’s sweet little picture of Cherryburn dated 1838, although with larger trees and with additional detail, is much like John Bewick’s engraving dated 1781, found as a frontispiece to Thomas Bewick’s Memoir, 1862. </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">The drawing, which measures 16cm x 23cm, is now conserved on acid free board; it still retains the original title, perhaps by the artist, inset below. A charming homage to TB ten years after his death, perhaps just a snapshot from times past.</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> <br /></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">In 1827 Carmichael, twice an exhibitor, and with a growing reputation – he had been painting in oils for about five years by then – joined Thomas and Robert Bewick on the committee of the Northumberland Institution for the Promotion of the Fine Arts. By the following year this grandiose Institution was wound up; and Thomas Bewick had died.</div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TMQuSjIkEYA/X8KOVqY0wlI/AAAAAAAAAqI/HjQgEcHlbtUEA8T_Y6nX-J7QpaZ44aLsACNcBGAsYHQ/s3339/Cherryburn%2B2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="339" data-original-width="3339" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TMQuSjIkEYA/X8KOVqY0wlI/AAAAAAAAAqI/HjQgEcHlbtUEA8T_Y6nX-J7QpaZ44aLsACNcBGAsYHQ/s320/Cherryburn%2B2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">The original solid wood frame, (who knows, perhaps made by Carmichael), with gilded slip measures 27.5cm x 34cm. It has to its edge an intriguing, partially polished away, and only guessable contemporary ink inscription:‘Frame made of Thorne from old ….. ick’ [?] </div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"> </div></div><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><i>'near the House [Cherryburn] were two large Ash trees, from one Root but the top of one of them was blown away in high Wind, & another one, of the same kind, at a little distance from them – at the south end of the Premisses, was the spring Well, overhung by a large Hawthorne bush'</i></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">(A Memoir of Thomas Bewick, Written by Himself. 1862. Iain Bain edn. 1975)</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"> </div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"> </div></div></span><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Graham Carlisle</div></div></span><p></p></div></div></div></div>The Bewick Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13438705471412479250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1986526913567379519.post-11179527708415418262020-11-20T13:14:00.000+00:002020-11-20T13:14:07.071+00:00An Ex-library copy of Fables by the Late Mr. Gay<p> </p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">In
the normal course of events the Bewick Society would have held an
Enthusiasms event at this time of year. This year's meetings have all
been cancelled as we continue to fight the pandemic. Enthusiasms events
allow us to share recent finds, often highlighting out of the ordinary
publications, artworks or manuscripts. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Here Graham Carlisle shares a rare item from an unlikely source.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BlpqCesNinc/X7e9a3FOeGI/AAAAAAAAAps/bsz-ic6IOB83sStdBibs07QD6v1OY8fZgCNcBGAsYHQ/s3648/DSC08794.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2736" data-original-width="3648" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BlpqCesNinc/X7e9a3FOeGI/AAAAAAAAAps/bsz-ic6IOB83sStdBibs07QD6v1OY8fZgCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/DSC08794.JPG" width="320" /></a></div> <p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Fables | by the Late | Mr. Gay. | […] EDINBURGH: PRINTED FOR W. COKE, LEITH. | 1792.</span></span></h3><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Ex-Libris, nice to consider; thoughts of a fine armorial bookplate, and a good family association perhaps. But Ex-Library? That is a less than enticing addition to any book description. Short of funds, even to maintain existing stocks, public libraries in recent years have made large scale disposals. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QjbJO80CTt0/X7e9afUWQGI/AAAAAAAAApg/NB11kl08WGwk77cNX3Me1jGRYtOZ7cGCACNcBGAsYHQ/s3648/DSC08796.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2736" data-original-width="3648" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QjbJO80CTt0/X7e9afUWQGI/AAAAAAAAApg/NB11kl08WGwk77cNX3Me1jGRYtOZ7cGCACNcBGAsYHQ/s320/DSC08796.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Times, February 28, 2009 reported:<br />“Rush for Free Books. Thousands of second-hand books were given away free at a warehouse in Bristol. […] Visitors brought crates and even prams to collect the books. The<br />warehouse will remain open this week.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rseMK-_xs-Y/X7e9bg2kP4I/AAAAAAAAApw/YvnaUn5Qww4ek_qI91SYtt50whJeDvlAwCNcBGAsYHQ/s3648/DSC08797.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2736" data-original-width="3648" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rseMK-_xs-Y/X7e9bg2kP4I/AAAAAAAAApw/YvnaUn5Qww4ek_qI91SYtt50whJeDvlAwCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/DSC08797.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />Best known for his prize winning ‘Hound and Huntsman’ engraving printed within the book, Thomas Bewick’s edition of <i>Fables by the Late Mr. Gay</i>, sourced from the<br />Bristol warehouse, had an interesting life. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Central Library, Brixton; Westminster Public Library and Kent County Library are among the stamps gracing this buckram<br />bound volume.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-45JrXwP4ziM/X7e9apq_3sI/AAAAAAAAApo/vN6q72ZLMBccurWtPFFW4SS8tnR633YnwCNcBGAsYHQ/s3648/DSC08795.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2736" data-original-width="3648" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-45JrXwP4ziM/X7e9apq_3sI/AAAAAAAAApo/vN6q72ZLMBccurWtPFFW4SS8tnR633YnwCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/DSC08795.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />Tattersfield: TB 2.163, vol. 3 p.46, note 4. ‘nearly the whole [of the remaining sheets] … was sold to an Edinburgh bookseller, who printed a new title page and inserted his own name as the printer of the work’. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Coke’s edn is elusive and the only 2 copies examined (coll. Iain Bain, coll. The writer) each bear Glasgow Grammar School prize labels (1801, 1802), suggesting the sheets were<br />purchased by Coke for the purpose of supplying scholastic <i>premia</i>. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />Graham Carlisle <br /></span></span></p>The Bewick Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13438705471412479250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1986526913567379519.post-1279123825867185912020-11-12T10:58:00.001+00:002020-11-12T11:01:28.960+00:00'My Dear Mother's ' Book of Common Prayer<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DcGF4sdufg0/X60NfLTNDFI/AAAAAAAAAo8/GnxF5N5oSAQkQcQJIBt0uZG7k68b2c3CgCNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/DSCN0769%2B%25282%2529.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1719" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DcGF4sdufg0/X60NfLTNDFI/AAAAAAAAAo8/GnxF5N5oSAQkQcQJIBt0uZG7k68b2c3CgCNcBGAsYHQ/s320/DSCN0769%2B%25282%2529.JPG" /></a></div><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">In the normal course of events the Bewick Society would have held an Enthusiasms event at this time of year. This year's meetings have all been cancelled as we continue to fight the pandemic. Enthusiasms events allow us to share recent finds, often highlighting out of the ordinary publications, artworks or manuscripts. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Here Nigel Tattersfield shares a rare item complete with a poem and an interesting inscription. </span><br /></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England. Also, the Companion to the Altar. With Notes and Annotations. Newcastle: Printed by M. Brown, at the Bible, Flesh-Market. M.DCC.XCII. 8vo, no pagination provided, as is customary. Page size 203 x 127mm. Contemporary full diced calf, replacement spine to match (c.1850) with raised bands and contrasting label, covers with broad gilt and blind-stamped borders.</span></h3><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IvwdQqs_ink/X60NfAgfuGI/AAAAAAAAApA/6GSfRs1Llp4fVaqOWjU8nxMBcpg4g5lEgCPcBGAYYCw/s2048/DSCN0768%2B%25283%2529.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1756" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IvwdQqs_ink/X60NfAgfuGI/AAAAAAAAApA/6GSfRs1Llp4fVaqOWjU8nxMBcpg4g5lEgCPcBGAYYCw/s320/DSCN0768%2B%25283%2529.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;">TB’s family copy with his signature. ‘Thoˢ. Bewick, Forth’. </h4><p>TB’s beloved ‘cot at the Forth’ lay just outside Newcastle’s town wall; he had moved there in 1781, taking over the tenancy from the mathematician Charles Hutton, whose Treatise on Mensuration he had illustrated ten years earlier. Below TB’s signature of ownership is a later inscription in the hand of his daughter Jane, ‘My Dear Mother’s’, to the head of the title-page. Pasted to one of the front flyleaves is a contemporary MS ‘true copy’, signed by the vicar Joseph Middleton, 13 September 1759, of an extract from the register of the parish of Long Horsley recording the baptism of Robert, son of Edward Elliot of Lincolmfield, 17 October 1706. (Robert was later a farmer at Bill Quay on the Tyne near Heworth; he was TB’s wife Isabella’s father and the source for the naming of their only son, Robert Elliot Bewick. The family of Robert Ward, printer and publisher of Newcastle from 1845, could also claim descent from the Elliots.)<br />This prayer book, a staple in every respectable home at the end of the eighteenth century, with three copper engravings by TB’s erstwhile apprentice Abraham Hunter, was probably purchased on publication in 1792; a second edition appeared two years later.<br /> </p><p>This volume is not noticed by David Gardner-Medwin in his meticulously researched ‘Provisional Checklist of the Library of Thomas Bewick’ of 2010 (<a href="http://www.bewicksociety.org/Research%20PDFs/A%20PROVISIONAL%20CHECKLIST%20OF%20THE%20LIBRARY%20OF%20THOMAS%20BEWICK.pdf" target="_blank">available on the Bewick Society’s website</a>) suggesting it remained in TB’s immediate family after his death and with the Bewick Ward family thereafter (although it cannot be traced in any of the recent auction sales enacted on their behalf). The sole sighting of the volume in the last two centuries came in 1903 when it was exhibited as entry 159 at the Academy of Arts, Newcastle, as part of the 150th anniversary of TB’s birth and described as being in the possession of the Ward family.<br /> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4sPJKvodKao/X60TU0gWgqI/AAAAAAAAApM/G7xxJMYSTHcF0peZISLgGMfymiIHvlRWACNcBGAsYHQ/s2048/DSCN0767%2B%25282%2529.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1339" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4sPJKvodKao/X60TU0gWgqI/AAAAAAAAApM/G7xxJMYSTHcF0peZISLgGMfymiIHvlRWACNcBGAsYHQ/s320/DSCN0767%2B%25282%2529.JPG" /></a></div><p> </p>Laid down on the front endpaper is an original MS poem by Richard Routledge Wingate (1779-1857), ‘Lines on the highly gifted Mr. Thomas Bewick, celebrated Inventor, Draughtsman and Cutter on Wood’. Dated 10 December 1851, it concludes with a brief obituary of TB and the recollection, ‘I had the solemn office to assist at his funeral’. Wingate was a renowned bird anatomist and taxidermist, a close friend and neighbour of TB’s at the Forth, and acknowledged in TB’s Memoir for greatly assisting in the preparation of the 1826 edition of the Birds by advising on the difference between ‘doubtful Genera, species & varieties of Birds’. Wingate’s poem may have been presented to TB’s daughters in homage to their father and tucked by them into the volume for safe keeping; he was only eight years older than Jane, TB’s oldest daughter, and would have known them since they were infants.<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-align: justify;"><br />Nigel Tattersfield</p><br /></div>The Bewick Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13438705471412479250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1986526913567379519.post-15100294117056719222020-05-14T11:42:00.000+01:002020-05-14T11:42:02.489+01:00A Matter of Convenience<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ubnJgijj3Is/Xr0fVGbG4dI/AAAAAAAAAmc/5cXlS8ZsaN48K7Z-raI1KRTyAizKYlkDQCK4BGAsYHg/Bewick%2BVignette%2BManpeeing.BMP" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1055" data-original-width="1535" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ubnJgijj3Is/Xr0fVGbG4dI/AAAAAAAAAmc/5cXlS8ZsaN48K7Z-raI1KRTyAizKYlkDQCK4BGAsYHg/s320/Bewick%2BVignette%2BManpeeing.BMP" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>Graham Carlisle's puzzle</p><p>Two friends, and apprentices of the master were almost certainly
tempted to an act of sacrilege by this image (I like to think). Who were
they and why?</p><p> Clues:<span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> 1. A particular northern view; of Newcastle high church<br />
2. Within weeks of this TINY, but defiant act of sacrilege - which has
gone unnoticed for 200 years - the two good friends were parted. One
died under tragic circumstances, the other: achieved fame and fortune in
London.<br /></span></p><p>3. Each by different means, left this undiscovered sacrilegious joke; against a more substantial northern wall...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-duvfrZzGHT0/Xr0f1kjDItI/AAAAAAAAAmw/__8GcNxTmZsDZ_wbiRhDtKSKdiVZl0E7ACK4BGAsYHg/DSC03864a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="914" data-original-width="1218" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-duvfrZzGHT0/Xr0f1kjDItI/AAAAAAAAAmw/__8GcNxTmZsDZ_wbiRhDtKSKdiVZl0E7ACK4BGAsYHg/s320/DSC03864a.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>Robert Johnson, who tragically died under horrible circumstances,
was a great pal of Charlton Nesbit; each of whom were bound to their
master at the Beilby and Bewick workshop.</p><p> Johnson, a precocious
talent, made one of best ever watercolour drawings of the North View of
St. Nicholas' Church, Newcastle. Now within the collection of the Laing
Art Gallery, Newcastle, and not often on public view, it can be accessed
onl<span class="text_exposed_show">ine and is well worth a look.<br />
But that's not all: The young Robert made two versions of this view, one
of which is intended for those of a genteel disposition; the other,
pleasingly full of social commentary. The second version has in the far
distance, perhaps to the consternation of those shown lingering near the
church wall, a tiny figure making a convenience of Newcastle's 'high
church'.</span></p><div class="text_exposed_show"><p> The message is
clear, and would not have been missed by Bewick who, around this time,
to the displeasure of his daughters, cut on wood the Pigsty Netty and
Peeing Pedlar.<br /> TB is traditionally said to have drawn the two young
boys hitching a lift on the carriage; maybe he did, and they are
intended to represent Johnson and Nesbit?<br /> Nesbit, within weeks of
Johnson's death, and for the benefit of his family, engraved on wood the
most extraordinary copy of Johnson's view, on twelve joined blocks full
of exquisite detail; the print is now rarely to be found, the joke
unrecognised.<br /> G.C.<br /> The print version is available on the British Museum <a href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1982-U-900" target="_blank">site here </a></p></div>The Bewick Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13438705471412479250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1986526913567379519.post-4944243113672214892020-04-01T17:12:00.000+01:002020-04-01T17:12:08.099+01:00Dealing in Deceit.<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="85oqh" data-offset-key="bcoos-0-0">
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The Bewick Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13438705471412479250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1986526913567379519.post-67528422934112146142020-04-01T16:19:00.000+01:002020-04-01T16:19:17.376+01:00A Question of SquirrelsThe Little Ground Squirrel of 1790<br />
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I have a large number of wood cuts taken from books (by someone else) and pasted into a scrapbook many many years ago. These include a quantity from Bewick’s Quadrupeds. I have an 1811 edition but have only been able to read 1790, 1791 and 1792 editions on line. <br />For the reasons I have set out below the cuts which are not complete appear to come from the 1790 edition. <br />a. There is ‘The Common Bull and Cow’ while later editions named them ‘The Holstein or Dutch Breed’ <br />b. There is ‘The Bouti-Bok, or Pied Goat’ later named as ‘The Pied Goat’ <br />c. There is ‘The Thick-Nosed Tapir’ later ‘Capibara’ <br />d. There is ‘The New South-Wales Dog’ later ‘The New South-Wales Wolf’ <br />e. What appears to be the early picture of ‘The Spotted Hyena’ <br /><br />It is possible to read what appears on the back and this in every case corresponds with the 1790 edition. However, I have an image of ‘The Ground Squirrel’ which is shown below.<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Baskerville","serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Baskerville; mso-fareast-font-family: Baskerville;"> </span>Yet, in the 1790 edition this is referred to on Page 336 as ‘The Little Ground Squirrel’ although in every other respect, including the text on the back, it is correct. </div>
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The 1791 edition refers to the same image but on Page 356 as ‘The Ground Squirrel’ but the text on back though similar does not correspond. <br />….. <br /><br />Please can someone clarify. Am I missing something? Does someone have a 1790 edition that is different? The idiosyncrasies of 18th century publishing are beyond me! <br /><br />Many thanks for any help <br />Gill White <br /><br />We have this reply: <br /><br />Dear Gill, <br />The answer to your query can be explained by your bringing to light an unrecorded variant of the first edition 1790, of Thomas Bewick's <i>A General History of Quadrupeds</i>!<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Baskerville","serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Baskerville; mso-fareast-font-family: Baskerville;"></span><br />
The images attached are from two first editions in my collection. From these, it can be seen the word 'little' has been dropped from the animal's title, as printing of the first edition progressed.<br />
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This seems not to have been noted in Sidney Roscoe's<span class="st"> 'Thomas <em>Bewick</em> A Bibliography Raisonné', 1953.</span><br />
<span class="st"> </span><br />Yours sincerely, <br /> Graham CarlisleThe Bewick Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13438705471412479250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1986526913567379519.post-4647819024128409582019-11-04T11:24:00.000+00:002019-11-04T11:24:46.894+00:00The Unknown Genius<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A film from Tyne Tees Television, 1978<br />
With Iain Bain, James Alder and Joan Hassall.<br />
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<br />The Bewick Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13438705471412479250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1986526913567379519.post-28499573647430958562019-03-25T12:08:00.000+00:002019-03-25T12:08:08.835+00:00Hands On event at Cherryburn<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In this reading from Bewick's Memoir the engraver remembers falling ill, being nursed back to health against all the odds and resolving to publish a new edition of the Fables of Aesop. The book was harder to realise than he imagined, with eye strain and printing problems to be coped with. The text was finally published on 1st October 1818, however Bewick favoured the second edition of 1823.<br />
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Read by Stephen Tomlin (<a href="http://stevetomlin.co.uk/)">http://stevetomlin.co.uk/)</a> at Cherryburn, October 2018.The Bewick Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13438705471412479250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1986526913567379519.post-72173710896178235222018-10-04T20:33:00.000+01:002018-10-04T20:33:36.293+01:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Graham Carlisle reports a break-through find using <a href="http://collections.wordsworth.org.uk/wtweb/home.asp?page=Bewick%20archive%20search" target="_blank">the online facility available from the Wordsworth Trust.</a><br />
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For a number of years I have been researching two sets of india paper proofs of Bewick's<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1538640280972_12994">Birds, Quadrupeds & Vignettes.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>Bound in 19th century morocco, the sets were bought from an American dealer who acquired them from the illustrious hands of the famous Rosenbach. No signs of previous ownership, old bookplates removed!</div>
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The workshop archives suggested Jane Bewick had compiled two such albums at a charge of £4.4s.0d. Using the different Newcastle archive sources, I built a case for the two albums having been purchased by the famous bookseller: William Pickering. Mine being one, the other now with the Metropolitan Museum of Art NY via the Jupp collection.</div>
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This is the result of inserting the search term 'Pickering' in the Wordsworth Trust digital archive (abreviated):</div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1538640280972_12733" style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1538640280972_12734" style="font-size: 8pt;"><i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1538640280972_12735">Dear Sir</i></span></span></div>
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…<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1538640280972_12737" style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1538640280972_12738" style="font-size: 8pt;"><i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1538640280972_12739">I wish to have the other copy of the India Paper Quadrupeds & should be glad to have the Birds – in the same state I think the vignettes form an inseparable part of the books… If you could accommodate me with an entire set of india impressions of the Birds, Quadrupeds & Vignettes at a moderate cost. For myself (</i><i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1538640280972_12740"><u id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1538640280972_12741">not for sale</u></i><i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1538640280972_12742"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1538640280972_12743">) – I should be much obliged they have been favourite works with me for many years & and which I have from liking commen</span></i><i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1538640280972_12744"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1538640280972_12745">ded</span></i><i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1538640280972_12746"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1538640280972_12747"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>& pushed(?) to a considerable extent(?). I remain Dear Sir, Yrs very truly, W. Pickering</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1538640280972_12770">…<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1538640280972_12771" style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1538640280972_12772" style="font-size: 8pt;"><i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1538640280972_12773">I should like to have 2 or 3 setts of the Birds India Paper with the vignettes – mounted or unmounted should you mount any more copies of the Cutts. You will find that they answer better by pasting the inner & outer edge all the way – than at the corner</i></span></span></span><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1538640280972_12774" style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1538640280972_12775" style="font-size: 8pt;"><i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1538640280972_12776"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1538640280972_12777">s indeed(?) it would save trouble & be cheaper<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i><i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1538640280972_12778"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1538640280972_12779">to take off a few copies when the books are reprinting – entirely upon India Paper – which I think I could supply if you any difficulty in procuring it at Newcastle rather<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i><i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1538640280972_12780"><u id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1538640280972_12781">thicker</u></i><i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1538640280972_12782"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1538640280972_12783"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>than usual.</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1538640280972_12785" style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1538640280972_12786" style="font-size: 8pt;"><i id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1538640280972_12787">The Birds upon India Paper I should be glad to receive as early as possible… I remain, Sir, Your obt. Servt. W. Pickering</i></span></span></div>
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<br />The Bewick Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13438705471412479250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1986526913567379519.post-44067233276117144022018-09-25T10:30:00.002+01:002018-09-25T10:34:48.529+01:00The Young Man and His Cat<br />
1st October 2018 marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of <br />
The Fables of Aesop and others with Designs on Wood by Thomas Bewick.<br />
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Listen to a fable read by members of Explore in Newcastle upon Tyne.<br />
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CHERRYBURN (Song for Thomas Bewick)<br />
By John Leslie<br />
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Cherryburn, Ovingham, banks of the Tyne<br />
A bird on the wing, a fish on the line<br />
Schooled in the meadow, suited him fine <br />
Thomas had, plenty of time<br />
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A model apprentice, a skilful performer<br />
Sanctified workshop, along Amen Corner<br />
That’s where he flourished with boxwood and blade<br />
Master of all he surveyed<br />
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Wild birds, and fables, and books to be bound<br />
The Chillingham Bull, Huntsman and the Hound<br />
For Thomas, the bells of St Nicholas chime <br />
Cherryburn, Ovingham, banks of the Tyne<br />
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Wild birds, and fables, and books to be bound<br />
The Chillingham Bull, Huntsman and the Hound<br />
For Thomas, the bells of St Nicholas chime <br />
Cherryburn, Ovingham, banks of the Tyne<br />
Cherryburn, Ovingham, banks of the Tyne<br />
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Schooled in a meadow, it suited him fine<br />
Cherryburn, banks of the TyneThe Bewick Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13438705471412479250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1986526913567379519.post-43713674999370576372018-05-16T10:12:00.000+01:002018-05-17T10:14:01.593+01:00From Keith Armstrong<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>on the pavement of scrapes and kisses.</b></div>
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<b>its pleasure gardens;</b></div>
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<b>throw your darts in the archery field.</b></div>
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<b>doff your hat to Mrs Waldie;</b></div>
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<b>old scars of lanes </b></div>
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<b>to the bloody gush of Westgate Street;</b></div>
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<b>whistle with birds</b></div>
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<b>in a vicar’s garden,</b></div>
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<b>let warm thoughts fly in Tyneside sun</b></div>
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<b>to bless this Geordie day.</b></div>
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<b>And greet </b></div>
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<b>the morning hours,</b></div>
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<b>Aunt Blackett and Gilbert Gray,</b></div>
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<b>sing to free the world,</b></div>
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<b>the Black Boy;</b></div>
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<b>harmonise your mind</b></div>
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<b>in a churchyard of melancholy.</b></div>
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<b>Dance over the Lort Burn,</b></div>
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<b>flooding your workshop</b></div>
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<b>Your shoulders so proud</b></div>
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<b>bridge the aching Tyne,</b></div>
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<b>the dirty colliers and the harping whalers.</b></div>
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<b>Walk on Tom,</b></div>
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<b>execute </b></div>
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<b>a portrait</b></div>
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<b>of a hanging man;</b></div>
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<b>let your strong heart</b></div>
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Keith performed a number of poems at the City Library on Tuesday <b>15th May as part of Local History Month: </b><br />
Tyne Artistry: celebrating local legends in their anniversary years. Keith was joined by folk band 'The Sawdust Jacks', and Northumbrian Piper Chris
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The Bewick Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13438705471412479250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1986526913567379519.post-49738061272758989942018-04-30T09:18:00.000+01:002018-04-30T09:18:17.714+01:00Hands on at CherryburnFrom 2-4 on Sunday 29th April 2018.<br />
With readings by Stephen Tomlin from The Fables of Aesop, 1818.<br />
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<br />The Bewick Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13438705471412479250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1986526913567379519.post-14728467218539444632018-04-29T22:27:00.000+01:002018-04-29T22:27:34.787+01:00A review of The Sketchbook of 1792-1799.A recently published review of The Sketchbook of 1792-1799.<br />
Thanks to reviewer Alastair Johnston. Click on the thumbnails to read the review.<br />
From The Book Collector, Spring 2018.<br />
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Tom Brand has sent us some excellent photographs from his exhibition in the Brauer Museum.</div>
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Thanks Tom, it looks wonderful.</div>
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<strong>"You may be interested in an exhibit of the works of Bewick at the Brauer Museum in Valparaiso, Indiana which is about 14 miles from my home/studio. All of the pieces are from my collection. There are over 40 pieces framed and all of the major books by Thomas Bewick are shown. To assist the viewer, good size magnifying glasses (with lights) are furnished. I was a friend and neighbor of Bob Middleton and a good friend of Bill Hesterberg of Hesterberg Press. Their Bewick offerings are exhibited as well.</strong></div>
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The Museum website here <a href="https://www.valpo.edu/brauer-museum-of-art/">https://www.valpo.edu/brauer-museum-of-art/</a><br />
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Our AGM is tomorrow. <br /> After the business of the meeting Dave Harker
will give a talk on the development of NE printing, with special
reference to slip songs, up to the late 18th century. <br /> Thursday 26 October 2017 at 6-8pm in the All Seeing Eye Function Room. (Business starts at 6.15 approx)<br /> Function Room, Blackie Boy, 11 Groat Market, Newcastle upon Tyne.</div>
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The Bewick Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13438705471412479250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1986526913567379519.post-82000056028302769862017-10-24T11:24:00.001+01:002017-10-24T11:24:33.960+01:00Birds Want You To Listen To Their Songs, Juneau Projects<div class="caption">
Juneau Projects<br />
<i>Birds Want You To Listen To Their Songs</i><br />
1 September - 29 October 2017<br />
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From the <a href="http://www.juneauprojects.co.uk/" target="_blank">Juneau Projects</a> website:<br />
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exhibition is the culmination of our Thomas Bewick Fellowship residency
at Cherryburn. The show is inspired by our research into Bewick’s engravings. Alongside this we worked with local school children to get their perspective on the area around Cherryburn. </i><br />
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exhibition includes low relief sculptures, prints and print blocks,
viewfinders and a print kit that allows visitors to mix and match print
blocks to create their own ‘tail-pieces’ inspired prints.</i></div>
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