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Nature's Engraver.(book; A Life of Thomas Bewick)(Brief article)(Book review)
In 1767, when fourteen-year-old Thomas Bewick became an engraver's apprentice in Newcastle, woodcutting was commonly deemed a crude art that could never rival pricey copperplate in detail. But Bewick perfected the craft with realistic yet whimsical engravings that conveyed the vanishing rural world of his youth with a "miniature intensity." Uglow traces his rise: he became the head of a workshop (she is very knowledgeable about the material history of engraving and printing), and achieved sudden fame with the ...
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