Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick

摘要

The life and work of Thomas Bewick is of interest to everyone from the general reader to the specialist in book illustration, the bibliography of natural history, early children's books, chapbooks and ephemera. He was, as biographer Jenny Uglow says, "a rare artist in that he speaks directly both to adults and to children, who respond at once to his small scenes". These small scenes usually took the form of wood-engravings (on box wood) and were often vignettes of animals and people in life-like settings. The personality of the animals and birds, and the humour and understanding of human nature, that come through these illustrations have endeared them to thousands of readers for a long time.