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THOMAS BEWICK. 



all the subsequent blocks St. Nicholas appears, the old castle being after- 

 wards introduced, and the trunk of the oak changed to some rocks with 

 thick foliage above. Bewick himself did many of these duplicates, and it is 

 curious to follow and observe the little variations developed during the time 

 the cuts were employed. After about thirty years' use the cuts appear to 

 have been engraved by another and much more mechanical hand. They 

 gradually lose force and beauty, until the later ones printed can scarcely 

 be recognised as the same design as that from which they were all copied. 



The Newcastle Journal cut had the arms of Newcastle in the middle, 

 and those of Durham and Northumberland on each side. The Chronicle 



heading was simply in text writ- 

 ing, sometimes solid and some- 

 times in outline. The Advertiser 

 had the arms of Newcastle shown 

 in the accompanying illustration, 

 which is taken from an excellent 

 electro, and the Durham Chronicle 

 the arms of the bishopric in the 

 centre, and of the city in each 



The Arms of Newcastle. 



corner. 



The Broad and Crown Glass Company of Newcastle had a copper-plate 

 done by Bewick about 1779, which they used for bills; it showed' the arms of 

 Newcastle, with the initials of the company in ornamental capitals enclosed 

 in a scroll border. 



In 1780 there was published in London an edition of "Aristotle's 

 Complete Masterpiece," with nine somewhat unpleasant cuts of human 

 monstrosities, probably executed under Bewick's supervision. About the 

 same year saw the publication of " The Mirror, or a Looking Glass for 

 both Sexes," by Saint, in which several pretty cuts appeared. 



In the following year Saint published " A Choice Collection of 



