Tail-pieces and tiny detail: Thomas Bewick at the Ikon gallery
Wood engraving by Thomas Bewick. Tailpiece for the Long-legged Plover, from A History of British Birds, Vol 2. 1804. Photograph: Ikon gallery/Bewick Images.Photograph: PRWood engraving by Luke Clennell from a sketch by Thomas Bewick. Tailpiece for The History of British Birds, Vol 1, 1797. Photograph: Ikon gallery/Bewick Images. Photograph: PRUntitled vignette, 1818. Talepiece for Fables of Aesop and Others. Wood engraving by Thomas Bewick. Photograph: Ikon gallery/Bewick Images.Photograph: PR
Wood engraving by Thomas Bewick. Tailpiece for A History of British Birds, Vol 1 1797. Photograph: Ikon gallery/Bewick Images.Photograph: PRWood engraving by Luke Clennell from a sketch by Thomas Bewick and apprentice Robert Johnson, tailpiece for A History of British Birds, Vol.2, 1804. Photograph: Thomas Bewick/Ikon Gallery. Photograph: PR
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