A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . out his enquiries 476 REVIVAL OF WOOD ENGRAVING. across the Tyne first appeared in a Memoir prefixed to the Select Fables,published by E. Charnley, 1820. Mr. William Bedlington, an old friendof Bewick, once asked him if it were true ? Babbles and nonsense Iwas the reply. It never happened but once, and that was when theriver had suddenly swelled before I could reach the top of the alters*and yet folks are made to believe that I was in the habit of doing it. On the expiration of his apprenticeship he returned to his fathershouse at Cher
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . out his enquiries 476 REVIVAL OF WOOD ENGRAVING. across the Tyne first appeared in a Memoir prefixed to the Select Fables,published by E. Charnley, 1820. Mr. William Bedlington, an old friendof Bewick, once asked him if it were true ? Babbles and nonsense Iwas the reply. It never happened but once, and that was when theriver had suddenly swelled before I could reach the top of the alters*and yet folks are made to believe that I was in the habit of doing it. On the expiration of his apprenticeship he returned to his fathershouse at Cherry-burn, but still continued to work for Mr. Beilby. Aboutthis time he seems to have formed the resolution of applying himselfexclusively in future to wood engraving, and with this view to haveexecuted several cuts as specimens of his ability. In 1775 he receiveda premium of seven guineas from the Society of Arts for a cut of theHuntsman and the Old Hound, which he probably engraved whenliving at Cherry-burn after leaving Mr. Beilby. t The following is a. \ fac-simile of this cut, which was first printed in an edition of GaysFables, published by T. Saint, Newcastle, 1779. Mr. Henry Bohn, thepublisher of the present edition, happening to be in possession of theoriginal cut, it is annexed on the opposite page. In 1776, when on a visit to some of his relations in Cumberland,^ heavailed himself of the opportunity of visiting the Lakes ; and in after- • Alders—the name of a small plantation above Ovinghara, which Bewick had to passthrough on his way to Eltringham teiTy-boat. t The Reverend William Turner, of Newcastle, in a letter printed in the MonthlyMagazine for June 1801, says that Bewick obtained this premium during his apprentice-ship, This must he a mistake ; as his apprenticeship expired in October 1774, and heobtained the premium in 1775. It is possible, however, that the engraving may have beenexecuted during that period. t Bewicks mother, Jane Wilson, was a daughter o
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