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Thomas Bewick  (1753–1828)  wikidata:Q437594 s:en:Author:Thomas Bewick
 
Thomas Bewick
Alternative names
Бевик, Томас; Thomas Bewick; Бевик; Томас Бюик; Bewick; Tomas Bevik; トマス・ビュイック
Description British ornithologist, printmaker, painter, illustrator, wood engraver and copper engraver
English engraver and natural history author
Date of birth/death 10 August 1753 / 12 August 1753 Edit this at Wikidata 8 November 1828 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Mickley Gateshead
Work period 1768 Edit this at Wikidata–1828 Edit this at Wikidata
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Newcastle upon Tyne; London; Scotland Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q437594
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Vignette from Thomas Bewick's A History of British Birds (Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1805, vol. 2, p. 323), mentioned in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (""The fiend pinning down the thief's pack behind him, I passed over quickly: it was an object of terror" — chapter 1)
Date 1805
date QS:P571,+1805-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source/Photographer http://www.virginia.edu/oldbooks/2005/exhibitions/eyreapparent/brofig6.html

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