Call Number:

C1009

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 1 box
• 0.2 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Citations should be as follows: Thomas Bewick Collection, Box #, Folder #, Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1818-1826 (inclusive)

Creator:

Princeton University. Library. Special Collections and Bewick, Thomas, 1753-1828

Form:

Woodcuts.

Abstract:

Consists of several letters and woodcuts of 19th-century English engraver Thomas Bewick.

Thomas Bewick (1753-1828), a British wood engraver, lived in London and Newcastle upon Tyne. He engraved wood blocks for General History of Quadrupeds (1790), History of British Birds (1797 and 1804), and many other books and publications, and left unfinished illustrations for History of British Fishes.

The collection contains a small amount of Bewick's correspondence with E. Walmsley, Thomas Ransom, and Jonathan Couch about his work, and four of Bewick's small wood engravings taken from publications.

The correspondence is arranged chronologically.