MEMOIR OF THOMAS BEWICK. 



Mr Bewick's next works were on a larger scale : 

 four very spirited and accurate representations of a 

 zebra, an elephant, a lion, and a tiger, from the col- 

 lection and for the use of Mr Pidcock, the celebrat- 

 ed exhibitor of wild beasts. A few impressions 

 were taken of each of these, which are now very 

 scarce. 



In 1818, he published a collection of Fables, en- 



" Bewick's landscapes, too, are on the same principle 

 with his animals: they are for the most part portraits, the 

 result of the keenest and most accurate observation. You 

 perceive every stone and bunch of grass has had actual 

 existence : his moors are north-country moors, the progeny 

 of Cheviot, Rimside, Simonside, or Carter. The tail-piece 

 of the old man pointing out to his boy an ancient monu- 

 mental stone, reminds one of the Millfield plain, or Flod- 

 den Field. Having only delineated that in which he him- 

 self has taken delight, we may deduce his character from 

 his pictures : his heartfelt love of his native country, its 

 scenery, its manners, its airs, its men and women ; his pro- 

 pensity 



~~ by himself to wander 



Adown some trotting burn's meander, 



And no thinks lang : 



his intense observation of nature and human life; his sati- 

 rical and somewhat coarse humour; his fondness for maxims 

 and old saws ; his vein of worldly prudence now and then 

 " cropping out," as the miners call it, into day-light; his 

 passion for the sea-side, and his delight in " the angler' 

 solitary trade :" All this, and more, the admirer of Bewick 

 may deduce from his sketches. "Blackwootfs Magazine* 

 p. 2, 3. 



