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Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick

Door Jenny Uglow

Categorie	Grafiek & Tekeningen
Boeknummer	#348594-VC44
Titel	Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick
Auteur	Uglow, Jenny
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	London/Boston : Faber and Faber
Jaar van uitgave	2006
ISBN10	0571223745
ISBN13	9780571223749
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original boards, dust jacket, illustrations in colour and b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	At the end of the eighteenth-century Britain fell in love with nature. Two books marked this moment - Gilbert White's "Natural History of Selborne" and Thomas Bewick's "History of British Birds", the first 'field-guide' for ordinary people, illustrated by woodcuts of astonishing accuracy and beauty. But it was far more than that, for in the vivid vignettes scattered through the book Bewick drew the life of the country people of the North East, children and farmers, travelling musicians, old soldiers and beggars, housewives and fishermen - a world already vanishing under the threat of enclosures. In this superbly illustrated short life, Jenny Uglow tells the story of the farmer's son from Tyneside who never courted fame yet revolutionised wood-engraving and influenced bo... (Lees verder)ok illustration for a century to come. It is a story of violent change and radical politics, of Newcastle and the Tyne, workshops and family life, mines and fells, the sea and the fierce west winds - a journey into a past whose energy and power still haunt us today, and the beginning of our lasting obsession with the natural world.
Pagina's	458
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 10,00

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