The Dog under the Manger. 

 From Hewlett's " Spelling Book.' 



CHAPTER XII. 



bewick's minor works, 1785 to 1790. 



T3EF0RE describing the few minor works executed during- the years 

 *- 1785 and 1790, it may be well to observe that throughout this 

 season of preparation for the Quadrupeds Bewick accepted no orders for 

 work that he could reasonably avoid. It is not recorded that he actually 

 declined any commissions, but it may be gathered from his remains that 

 he only undertook those pressed on him by monetary considerations or 

 regard for his patrons. 



During the latter end of 1785, after his father died, and in the earlier 

 part of 1786, when he married, Bewick does not appear to have executed 

 anything besides the first Quadruped cuts and his ordinary shop-work. But 

 towards the end of 1786 Beilby and Bewick commenced engraving the copper- 

 plates for the "Tour through Sweden, Lapland, Finland, and Denmark," 

 by Matthew Consett and Sir H. G. Liddell, which was published in 1789. 



