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Bewick was born at Cherryburn House in the village of Mickley, in the parish of Ovingham, Northumberland, England, near Newcastle upon Tyne on 10 or 11 August 1753, although his birthday was always celebrated on the 12th.
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Hoover was made a partner in Bewick, Moreing & Co. on December 18, 1901 and assumed responsibility for various Australian operations and investments.
Thomas Bewick ( c. 11 August 1753 – 8 November 1828 ) was an English wood engraver and ornithologist.
Bewick was a poor scholar, but showed, at a very early age, a talent for drawing.
Bewick was helped by his intimate knowledge of the habits of animals acquired during his constant excursions into the country.
Engravings were initially designed on the wood by Bewick, while cutting was carried out by his apprentices under close supervision and refined where necessary by himself.
Bewick was fond of the music of Northumberland, and of the Northumbrian smallpipes in particular.
It was illustrated by Thomas Bewick ( 1796 ), by Thomas Stothard ( 1800 ), and by Hugh Thomson ( 1896 ), with a preface by RF Sharp.
* Bewick Bridge ( 1767 – 1833 ) was Professor of Mathematics 1806-16.
The originally Scottish " Corne Crake " was popularised by Thomas Bewick, who used this term in his 1797 A History of British Birds.
Bewick Bridge ( 1767, Linton, Cambridgeshire – 15 May 1833, Cherry Hinton ) was an English vicar and mathematical author.
He was re-elected MP for Bewick in the Convention Parliament in 1660.
He carried on the tradition of Bewick, fought for intelligent as against merely manipulative excellence in the use of the graver, and championed the use of the " white line " as well as of the black, believing with Ruskin that the former was the truer and more telling basis of aesthetic expression in the wood-block printed upon paper.
Following the achievements of Bewick, wood engraving was used to great effect by 19th century artists such as Edward Calvert, and its heyday lasted until the early and mid 20th century when remarkable achievements were made by Eric Gill, Eric Ravilious and others.
At about the same time, French engravers developed a modified technique ( partly a return to that of Bewick ) in which cross-hatching ( one set of parallel lines crossing another at an angle ) was almost entirely eliminated ; instead, all gradations of tone were rendered by white lines of varying thickness and closeness, sometimes broken into dots for the darkest areas.
Hiis style of wood-engraving was greatly influenced by that of Thomas Bewick.
He was also a contemporary of Thomas Bewick, and published his first work in Arnaud Bernaud's " The Looking Glass of the Mind " in 1794.
The woman who was driving the car, Alba Bewick ( Andréa Ferréol ), is not killed, but she sustains enough damage to warrant the amputation of a leg.
The fable of " A Gnat and a Bee " was later to be included by Thomas Bewick in his 1818 edition of Aesop's Fables.
William Bewick ( 1795 – 1866 ) was an English painter.
Born in Darlington, County Durham, Bewick was the son of an upholsterer.
* Thomas Bewick was educated in the vicarage and the church, and is buried in the churchyard of St Mary
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* November 8 – Thomas Bewick, engraver ( born 1753 )
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* Bewick at the Newcastle Collection
A pupil of Peacock, Robert Bewick, the son of Thomas Bewick the engraver, left five manuscript notebooks of pipetunes ; these, dated between 1832 and 1843, are from the earliest decades in which keyed chanters were common, and they give a good early picture of the repertoire of a piper at this stage in the modern instrument's development.
The technique of wood engraving developed at the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century, with the works of Thomas Bewick.
Pauline Bewick at Feile na Greine, Waterville, Co Kerry
Bewick executed a large cartoon of some of the figures in the Elgin Marbles at the request of the German poet Goethe.
Bewick and village
Bewick attended school in the nearby village of Ovingham.
Bewick and Northumberland
Pauline Bewick ( b. 1935 Northumberland, England ) is an Irish artist.
Bewick and England
Forced to retire by a sickness, Bewick spent his last 20 years in north-east England.
Bewick and Newcastle
* Thomas Bewick – Literary & Philosophical Society, Newcastle upon Tyne
Bewick's Wren also took his name and Thomas Bewick Primary School, in Newcastle upon Tyne, is named after him.
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Hoover left Bewick Moreing & Co in 1908 and, setting out on his own, eventually ended up with investments on every continent and offices in San Francisco, London, New York City, St. Petersburg, Paris and Mandalay, Burma.
In Beilby's workshop Bewick engraved a series of diagrams on wood for Dr. Charles Hutton, illustrating a treatise on mensuration.
Bewick now lives and works in County Kerry, where she spent some of her peripatetic childhood on a farm.
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* August 12 – Thomas Bewick, English wood engraver ( d. 1828 )
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Hoover went to Australia in 1897 as an employee of Bewick, Moreing & Co., a London-based mining company.
Later he worked for Bewick, Moreing & Co. as the company's lead engineer.
Writing in 1790, Bewick described it as the largest and most beautiful of the dog kind ; about 36 inches high, generally of a white or cinammon colour, somewhat like the Greyhound but more robust.
Among those who joined the academy were Charles Eastlake, Richard Westmacott ( the younger ), William Bewick and Thomas Uwins.
Cedar Hill is home to writer and musician Bewick Cory.
The early interest in observing birds for their aesthetic rather than utilitarian ( mainly food ) value is traced to the late-18th century in the works of Gilbert White, Thomas Bewick, George Montagu and John Clare.
His biographies of Henry Fielding ( 1883 ), Thomas Bewick ( 1884 ), Richard Steele ( 1886 ), Oliver Goldsmith ( 1888 ), Horace Walpole ( 1890 ) and William Hogarth ( 1879-1891-1897-1902-1907 ) are studies marked alike by assiduous research, sympathetic presentation and sound criticism.
This is likely due to his methods: Bewick, unlike his predecessors, would carve in harder woods, notably box wood, against the grain, using fine tools normally favoured by metal engravers.
Bewick had numerous pupils, several of whom gained distinction as engravers.
These included Luke Clennell, Charlton Nesbit, William Harvey, and his son and later partner Robert Elliott Bewick.
Bewick's autobiography, Memoirs of Thomas Bewick, by Himself, appeared in 1862.
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