THOMAS BEWICK. 



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During many years Bewick executed a considerable number of book- 

 plates, which form a brilliant series of engravings ; they were mostly done for 

 private gentlemen, and " being well paid for, were invariably excellently 

 engraved." On June 26th, 1822, Bewick received £5 from R. E. Croker for 

 one. Several have already been described: the later ones were : — "J. H. 

 Affleck, Newcastle-on-Tyne," a copper-plate of a shield among flowers. A 

 woodcut, with rock, foliage, and a distant view of Newcastle, done for 

 William Armstrong, and afterwards altered, and used on the title-page of 

 Bewick's Memoir, 1862. A view 

 of Strawberry Hill House, exe- 

 cuted for the Honourable Horace 

 Walpole, of which an impression 

 is given opposite. A Hawk 

 standing on rock was done for 

 W. Hawks, and a similar bird 

 alone, with the name in script, 

 for Joseph Hawks, for which see 

 previous page. Armorer Donkin's 

 book-plate contains a beautifully 

 varied cluster of foliage, and 



Wm. Taylor's and John Stobart's (which are very like each other) contain 

 excellent work. The woodcut done for J. W. Sanders (given here) is another 

 fine engraving, and the copper-plate for " John Headlam, M.A.," reproduced 

 on page 89, contains much characteristic work. John Adamson's cut — ruins 

 — is among the very best of the series, and Brockett's — a doorway not unlike 

 that in Jedburgh Abbey — W. Garret's (sometimes also used for a concert 

 ticket), and Straker's cuts were all employed at different times to embellish the 

 titles of the Newcastle reprints of 181 7 and onwards. Bewick also did some 

 excellent engravings on silver, several impressions from such work being in 

 the British Museum collection. 



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J. W. Sanders's Book-plate. 



