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Vignettes of Thomas Bewick and the Beilby-Bewick Workshop* The Bewick Society The First Part of an Inventory of the Vignettes of Thomas Bewick and the Beilby-Bewick Workshop* October 2012 Format This is a pdf document. To read it you may need to download a free pdf reader. There are many available. Try here http://get.adobe.com/reader/ Other readers are available. The document can be searched for the codes below or for descriptive words or phrases, using the Edit/Find facility. No illustrations are included; it may be possible to add these to later versions. The document may be downloaded for private use and can then be edited to suit the needs of users, on their own computers. The Bewick Society would be grateful for any corrections or suggestions for improvements, which should be sent to [email protected] with ‘Vignettes Inventory’ in the subject line. Scope Each of the different vignettes found in any edition of the works in the list below is given its own separate page in the inventory, and is identified by a unique code designating the work, date and page number of its first known publication. Vignettes here are not broadly defined as engravings without borders, but as the tail-pieces and title-page images in the published works illustrated by the workshop. Headpieces illustrating chapters or titled sections in books or newspapers, trade cuts and bookplates are excluded. Codes The codes are in the form ‘Q1790:100’, which denotes page 100 in the 1790 edition of A General History of Quadrupeds – and so on; tp means title page. AHBB1821: – Addenda to the History of British Birds (1821) CT1789: – Consett’s A Tour through Sweden, Swedish Lapland .... 1789 (one vignette only). DP1825: – Dovaston’s Poems. 2nd edition. Shrewsbury: 1825 (one vignette only). FA – Fables of Aesop (1818 and 1823) FBLB1800: – Figures of British Land Birds (1800) FBQ1824: – The Figures of Bewick’s Quadrupeds (1824) FC1794: – The Florist’s Companion by John Hudson, (Newcastle upon Tyne, printed for the editor [probably John Preston], nd. [January 1794]. FG1779: – Fables by the Late Mr Gay (1779) FJG – Fables of Mr John Gay (1797, 1806, 1811) LB – History of British Birds, Land Birds (all editions 1797-1847) MTB1862: – A Memoir of Thomas Bewick written by himself (1862) NLB1771: – A New Lottery Book. Saint, 1771. PE1781: – The Picture Exhibition: containing the original drawings of eighteen little Masters and Misses. Saint, 1781. PBP1779: – A Pretty Book of Pictures. Saint, 1779 * Compiled by Peter Osborne (Fables of Aesop and Gay’s Fables) and David Gardner-Medwin. PBP1867: - Pearson’s edition of A Pretty Book of Pictures (1867). PWRB1808a:1. - The Poetical Works of Robert Burns (Catnach & Davison, 1808) Vol. 1. PWRB1808a:2. - The Poetical Works of Robert Burns (Catnach & Davison, 1808) Vol. 2. PWRB1808b: - The Poetical Works of Robert Burns (Davison, 1808) Q – A General History of Quadrupeds (all editions 1790-1824) QFEW1818: – Quadrupeds. The Figures Engraved on Wood 1818 (Roscoe 9). SF – Select Fables (1776, 1784 and 1820 editions). SLB – Supplement to Land Birds (1821 and 1822) SWB – Supplement to Water Birds (1821 and 1822) TPsWTB1826: – Title pages for The Works of Thomas Bewick (“1826”) [probably a mid- 19th C compilation for collectors]. VTP1827: – Vignettes by Thomas Bewick (title page vignette only; the other vignettes on un- numbered pages of this publication vary in number and order. WB – History of British Birds, Water Birds (all editions 1804-1847). WEPB1860s – the spurious Pearson compilation Wood Engravings from a Pretty Book of Pictures for little Masters and Misses, or Tommy Trip’s History of Beasts and Birds, Dog Jowler, Giant Woglog, etc., etc. “Newcastle: printed by T.Saint, 1779”. Later compilations We have put in the figure numbers for Reynolds Stone (1953), and page references for Cirker’s idiosyncratic collection (1962), Bain (1978) and the IKON catalogue (2009) as these are likely to be the starting points of many searches. Many other vignettes in Cirker are not by Bewick or his pupils, and these are not mentioned here. Hugo (1870) illustrated ‘upwards of 2000 wood engravings’ of which he had collected the blocks. Very few of them were from the major Bewick works in the inventory below, the blocks for which were at that date still in the hands of the Bewick family, while Bewick’s earliest fable cuts were held by Edwin Pearson. Consequently Hugo’s ‘Bewicks’ were most often copies made by a number of trade engravers in the North East of England. Only a few of the vignettes in the present inventory were printed in Hugo and only a few of Hugo’s copies were similar enough to deserve mention. Many of Cirker’s images are copied from Hugo. Some vignettes in the spurious Wood Engravings from a Pretty Book of Pictures (see above and Bibliography) are also put in the inventory (coded as WEPB1860s) because if taken at face value they might be misattributed to A Pretty Book of 1779. (Vignettes in this collection that are from the 1779 edition are not mentioned here.) Editions examined These are as quoted in the Bibliography below, with the following exceptions. The Picture Exhibition: containing the original drawings of eighteen little Masters and Misses. ... ‘London’ [actually Newcastle, Thomas Saint, 1781] (coded as PE1781:) was examined only in the National Trust copy of the 1804 edition (NTC184) with the altered title page: The Picture-Room: containing the original drawings of eighteen little masters and misses. To which are added, moral and historical explanations. York: Printed by T. Wilson and R. Spence, High-Ousegate. 1804. DP1825: – Dovaston’s Poems. 2nd edition. Shrewsbury: 1825 (one vignette only). This vignette was seen only in the reproduction in Bewick to Dovaston letters 1824-1828 (Williams, 1968). Omissions from the Inventory The facsimile editions are not separately listed. The Ward Lock facsimile edition of Quadrupeds (1970) is copied from the 5th edition (Q1807:), the Frank Graham edition of the History of British Birds (two volumes 1971 and 1972) is copied from the 1826 edition (LB1826: and WB1826:), and the 1975 Paddington Press edition of The Fables of Aesop from the 1818 edition (FA1818:). The first four of the five volumes of the Memorial Edition of Thomas Bewick’s Works of 1885-87 are identical with the 8th edition of Quadrupeds (Q1824:), the 1826 edition of the Birds (LB1826: and WB1826:); and the 1823 edition of The Fables of Aesop (FA1823:). The fifth volume (the Memoir) was based by the editor, Austin Dobson, on the 1862 edition but with some additions from Bewick’s autograph manuscript (the full manuscript version was published in 1975, edited by Iain Bain) and the placing of the vignettes also differs. This volume is therefore the only one of the five to be recorded in the inventory. The 1827 volume of Vignettes by Thomas Bewick is not independently included because the order of its contents varies from copy to copy and the pages are not numbered. Instead the paginated reproductions of two different copies in Bain (1978) and the IKON catalogue (2009) are recorded here. Some of the many works in which workshop vignettes appear, but which are not yet included in the present inventory are listed below, but this list is very far from complete. Furthermore, most of the vignettes in books illustrated by John Bewick and by Thomas Bewick’s apprentices after they left his workshop are excluded. It may be possible in the future to add at least some of the numerous ‘Bewick style’ vignettes engraved by such prolific pupils as Charlton Nesbitt, Isaac Nicholson, Luke Clennell and William Harvey, Robert Bewick, and John Bewick himself (among others) but the number and range, and in some cases the obscurity, of the works which they illustrated are such that it will never be possible to make the inventory complete. We hope that by including most of the best-known of Bewick’s works here we have made the inventory a useful if incomplete tool. NB. Editions of Fables by the late Mr Gay with illustrations by John Bewick (brother of Thomas) and published in London in 1788, 1792, 1795, 1796, 1801, 1806, 1810, 1823 and 1834 are not catalogued here. Some of the many works illustrated by Bewick or his apprentices in Bewick’s lifetime, but not yet included here are: Blossoms of Morality 1796 (8th edit 1828) Fabliaux or Tales abridged from the French ... by M. le Grand (1796 & 1800, 1815) The Hive of Modern Literature (1795, 1799) The Hive of Ancient and Modern Literature (1806, 1812) Poems by Goldsmith and Parnell (1795, 1804) Poems by the Rev. Josiah Relph (1798) The Poetical Works of Robert Burns (various editions) The Poetical Works of Robert Ferguson (1812-1816) Recreations in Natural History (1815) Somervile’s Chase (1796, 1804) Some of the later works including Bewick’s vignettes or his apprentices’, but not yet included here are: Stephens, 1881 (with a few exceptions included) Bewick Sale catalogue (1884) and Bewick Memento (1884) Boyd, 1886 (with a few exceptions included) Robinson (1887) Anderton (1928) Tattersfield (1999 and 2011). Tattersfield’s Bookplates by Beilby and Bewick (1999) needs special mention. It illustrates a very large number of vignette-style bookplates, some of which have appeared elsewhere without a clear attribution. A few of these were later copied directly for tail-pieces and are mentioned in the inventory below, but the much larger number that are merely rather similar, such as the frequently used motif of an inscribed bush-topped rock, are not included here. Titles No attempt has been made to devise titles for most of the vignettes, particularly those in the two principal works, the Quadrupeds and British Birds.
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