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Memorial Edition of Thomas Bewick's Works (5); A Memoir of Thomas Bewick, Written by Himself. a New Ed., Prefaced and Annotated by Austin Dobson
Austin Dobson
Paperback. General Books LLC 2009-12-22.
ISBN 9781150683985
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Volume: 5 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1887 Original Publisher: B. Quaritch Subjects: Wood-engraving, English Illustration of books Art / Graphic Arts Art / Design / Book Art / Commercial / Illustration Art / Prints Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. BEING now nearly fourteen years of age, and a stout boy, it was thought time to set me off to business; and my father and mother had long been planning and consulting, and were greatly at a loss what it would be best to fix upon. Any place where I could see pictures, or where I thought I could have an opportunity of drawing them, was such only as I could think of. A Newcastle bookseller, whose windows were filled with prints, had applied to Mr. Gregson for a boy; and, when I was asked if I would like to go to him, I readily expressed my hearty consent; but, upon my father making enquiry respecting him, he was given to understand that he bore a very bad character: so that business was at an end. The same year -- 1767 -- during the summer, Williarn Beilby and his brother Ralph took a ride to Bywell, to see their intimate acquaintance, Mrs. Simons, who was my godmother, and the widow of the late vicar there. She gave them a most flattering account of me; so much so, that they, along with her and her daughter (afterwards Mrs. Hymers), set off that same afternoon to Cherry- burn to visit us, and to drink tea. When the Newcastle visitors had given an account of their paintings, enamellings, drawings, and engravings, with which I felt much pleased, I was asked which of them I should like to be bound to; and, likingt-i -Q Robert Simons. the look and deportment of Ralph the best, I gave the preference to him. Ma
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