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Excerpt from Thomas Bewick: His Life and Times
George Burnett; john Trotter Brockett, attorney john Murray, surgeon Rev. William Turner; William Preston, printer; john Adamson, attorney William Nicholson, portrait-painter; Charl ton N esbit; Nat Winch; Dr. Headlam, sometimes.
Miss Bewick describes the frontispiece, or portrait of her father, by N esbit, as a vile caricature of T. B. The hair looks like a wig awry. Of the cut on title, T. B. Did not cut this. The cut above advertisement, perspective bad. Ditto memoir, Isaac Nicholson, sculpt. End of memoir, Who was the artist here, Mr. Charnley? Where on earth was this cut produced Cut above contents (tynemouth Priory), Who did this? Referring to the small figures in the fore ground to the right, Miss jane asks, Are these paddocks Cut, end of contents, Stag drinking; to the right, Isa. N ichol son's rock Vignette, p. 6, background copied from vignette in Birds. Vignette, p. 8, Howitt's designs for Dr. Fothergill's work. This and some others were sent to him in America; what business had Mr. Nicholson with the design Page 10, Tommy Trip (thos. Published by N ewbery p. 16.
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