Lot 43
Bewick, Thomas
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 11 October 2017 at 11:00 BST
Description
The Wild Bull... At Chillingham-Castle, Northumberland. Newcastle, 1789. Wood-engraving on paper, 25 x 30cm. (including margins), glazed and framed
Footnote
Note: Hugo 431 etc. This impression does not appear to correspond to any of those listed by Hugo, but with visible hairline cracks. Regarded as Thomas Bewick's masterpiece, "Its many and great excellencies have been the theme of all writers on the subject of wood-engraving in England, and more than justify the admiration of the Bewick Collector" - (Hugo). Inscribed "The gift of Thomas Bewick to his young friend Mr George Atkinson, 14 March 1823." Atkinson was the author of A Sketch of the Life and Works of the late Thomas Bewick, published in 1831.