MEMOIR OF THOMAS BEWICK. 
Mr Bewick’s next works were on a larger scale : 
four very spirited and accurate representations of a 
zebra, an elephant, a lion, and a tiger, from the col- 
lection and for the use of Mr Pidcock, the celebrat- 
ed exhibitor of wild beasts. A few impressions 
were taken of each of these, which are now very 
scarce. 
In 1818, he published a collection of Fables, en- 
“ Bewick’s landscapes, too, are on the same principle 
with his animals: they are for the most part portraits, the 
result of the keenest and most accurate observation. You 
perceive every stone and bunch of grass has had actual 
existence: his moors are north-country moors, the progeny 
of Cheviot, Rimside, Simonside, or Carter. The tail-piece 
of the old man pointing out to his boy an ancient monu- 
mental stone, reminds one of the Millfield plain, or Flod- 
den Field. Having only delineated that in which he him- 
self has taken delight, we may deduce his character from 
his pictures: his heartfelt love of his native country, its 
scenery, its manners, its airs, its men and women ; his pro- 
pensity 
— — by himself to wander 
Adown some trotting burn’s meander, 
And no thinks lang: 
his intense observation of nature and human life; his sati- 
rical and somewhat coarse humour; his fondness for maxims 
and old saws ; his vein of worldly prudence now and then 
44 cropping out,” as the miners call it, into day-light; his 
passion for the sea-side, and his delight in 44 the angler’s 
solitary trade:” All this, and more, the admirer of Bewick 
may deduce from his sketches.” — Blackwood's Magazine , 
p.2,3. 
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