Description
| Product ID: | 9780571223756 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Nature's Engraver |
| Subtitle: | A Life of Thomas Bewick |
| Authors: | Author: Jenny Uglow |
| Page Count: | 496 |
| Subjects: | Prints and printmaking, Prints & printmaking, Individual artists, art monographs, Nature in art, Biography: general, Individual artists, art monographs, Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes, etc), Biography: general, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1700 to c 1800 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Tells the story of the farmer's son from Tyneside who revolutionised wood-engraving and influenced book illustration for a century to come. Thomas Bewick wrote A History of British Birds at the end of the eighteenth century, just as Britain fell in love with nature. This was one of the wildlife books that marked the moment, the first ''field-guide'' for ordinary people, illustrated by woodcuts of astonishing accuracy and beauty. But it was far more than that, for in the vivid vignettes scattered through the book Bewick drew the life of the country people of the North East - a world already vanishing under the threat of enclosures. |
| Imprint Name: | Faber & Faber |
| Publisher Name: | Faber & Faber |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2007-09-06 |