THOMAS BEWICK. 



Amongst numerous other designs executed for private people was one in 

 memory of Solomon Hodgson, Bewick's printer, who died on April 4th, 1800. 

 It is a tombstone with Hodgson's name and date of decease, placed in a 

 rural churchyard, and was used, as well as elsewhere, in Bell's Catalogue, 

 1 85 1. Another was made for Gregson and Bullen, upholsterers, of Liverpool 

 — an oak-tree with distant view, with various implements used in the trade, 

 signed with Bewick's initials in the usual monogram. Bells and Hedley's 

 Ewe and Sucking Lamb, signed " T. Bewick, sculp 1 .," is an interesting copper- 

 plate of about this date, and the one of Laidler the "Ta}'lor," also signed, 

 shows a frequent design of Bewick, being the royal arms with the merchant's 



J. Hewlett's " Introduction to Reading and Spelling," published in various 

 editions at the end of the century, contains a number of Fable blocks by 

 Bewick, some of which are signed. Three of them are given in this volume — 

 the Dog under the Manger, page 87 ; the Old Man and his Ass, page 201 ; 

 and the Boy and the Wolf, printed above. Although inferior to the engrav- 

 ings in the " Select Fables," they have a certain character which gives them 

 the stamp of originality. 



Relph's Poems, published January 1st, 1798, is chiefly remarkable for the 

 foliage cuts by Bewick; Buhner's "Julia, or Last Follies," 1798, contains two 

 excellent engravings ; and the " (Economist" of the same year has a fine figure 



name in script. The Lifeboat, with 

 Tynemouth in the distance, given on 

 a subsequent page, was employed 

 for broadsides in connection with 



the Northumberland Lifeboat. A 



The Boy and the Wolf. Hewlett's " Spelling Book." 



similar design was published in 

 the "Select Fables" of 1820, but 

 smaller, and a larger and different 

 rendering of the same subject in the 

 " Monthly Magazine," vol. xiii. 1802. 



