LUKE CLENNELL 93 



was apprenticed, in April, 1797, when sixteen years 

 of age, to Thomas Bewick, of Newcastle, one 

 of the most distinguished wood engravers that 

 this country has ever produced, and also one of 

 our most able and observant ornithologists. Under 

 Bewick's able direction the youth's natural abilities 

 were turned into right channels and speedily 

 developed. Such was his progress that Bewick 

 entrusted him with the execution of some of 

 Robert Johnson's designs for the second volume 

 of the Birds. This book was published in 1804, 

 the first volume having appeared in 1797. Clen- 

 nell would, therefore, have been twenty-one or 

 twenty-two years of age when he undertook a 

 task which indicates his competence as much by 

 reason of the high standard of excellence required 

 by the man who gave it as by its intrinsic difficulty. 



He did not confine himself to engraving ; he 

 designed many of the illustrations for the third 

 edition of Solomon Hodgson's The Hive of Ancient 

 and Modern Literahtre, published in 1806; several 

 of the illustrations in this work bear his initials. 

 Wallis and Scholey's History of England contains 

 much work by Clennell's hand, done by the young 

 artist during his apprenticeship to Bewick ; he also 

 engraved the plates which his employer had under- 

 taken to furnish. 



His contributions to the latter work were the 



