Thomas Bewick and his pupils

Austin Dobson

RA Collection: Book

Record number

19/3943

Author

Imprint

London: Chatto and Windus, Piccadilly, 1884

Physical Description

xviii, 232 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Contents

I. Introduction -- II. Bewick’s boyhood -- III. Apprenticeship -- IV. “Wanderjahre” -- V. “Gay’s Fables,” “Select Fables” -- VI. John Bewick -- VII. “Quadrupeds,” “Birds” -- VIIII. The tailpieces -- IX. “Aesop’s Fables,” Bewick’s death -- X. Charlton Nesbit -- XI. Luke Clennell -- XII. Harvey, Jackson, Etc.

Provenance

The front pastedown carries the egraved book-plate of 'Thomas Edward & Catharine Hodgkin'.

Binding Note

Green cloth binding; spine lettering [in gilt], 'Thomas / Bewick / And His / Pupils // Austin Dobson', [in black script] Thomas Bewick / his [fingerprint] Mark' and [in gilt] 'Chatto & Windus'.

Name as Subject

Contributors

James Ramsay, source artist
Chatto and Windus, publisher
R. and R. Clark (Edinburgh), printer