Natures engraver jenny uglow

In Nature's Engraver: The life of Thomas Bewick, Jenny Uglow tells the story of the farmer's son from Tyneside who revolutionised wood-engraving and.

A beautifully illustrated biography of Thomas Bewick (), the man whose art helped shape the way we view the natural worldAt the end of the eighteenth century, Britain, and much of the Western world, fell in love with nature.

In Nature's Engraver, Jenny Uglow tells the story of the farmer's son from Tyneside who became one of Britain's greatest and most popular engravers.

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Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick

July 23,

Jenny Uglow's biography of the great engraver Thomas Bewick is the most recent of my book club reads. As we use the group collections of a local library, our choices have to be adjusted to which books are available when, and this month it was Nature's Engraver.

This was a treat for those 0f us who enjoy good non-fiction, not such a treat for those who strongly prefer fiction.

Jenny Uglow's work is always well-researched and she has an easy grasp of the period covering Bewick's life (), one of great socio-economic and political change across continents.
Here we can see her immediate characters and the North East district of England in the context of wider contemporary events and ideas in a way that brings the place and time to life, enriching the biography of Bewick, who was born in the countryside west of Newcastle and lived his professional life in Newcastle, maintaining an extensive network of family, friends and colleag

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NATURE’S ENGRAVER

A wonderful portrait of the man whose exquisite woodcuts of landscapes and creatures reflected the essence of British rural life.

Uglow (The Lunar Men, , etc.) brings us deep into the Northumberland countryside along the Tyne, where Thomas Bewick (–) grew up. A truant with a gift for drawing and a penchant for close observation of nature, he apprenticed himself at 14 to a Newcastle engraver and began a lifetime of etching on wood. By day, Bewick, and later his apprentices, handled commercial orders for engraving on mugs, coffin plates, posters and bar bills. In his spare time, he worked painstakingly on lively borderless woodcuts for such celebrated books as The Quadrupeds and History of British Birds, which found an eager audience among both children and adults. Woodcuts from Bewick’s workshop illustrated some children’s books, religious tracts and other volumes published between and His circus posters, with ballet riders on horseback turning somersaults o

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Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick

Thomas Bewick’s (–) History of British Birds was the first field guide for ordinary people, illustrated with woodcuts of astonishing accuracy and beauty. In Nature’s Engraver, Jenny Uglow tells the story of the farmer’s son from Tyneside who became one of Britain’s greatest and most popular engravers. It fryst vatten a story of violent change, radical politics, lost ways of life, and the beauty of the wild—a journey to the beginning of our lasting obsession with the natural world.

“A refined and engaging biography, as beautifully wrought, in its way, as Bewick’s woodcuts.”—New York Times

“Uglow’s klar prose sparkles like Bewick’s River Tyne.”—Los AngelesTimes

“This fryst vatten a lovely book, not just in the quality and sympathy of the writing but in the care of its design and bild. [Uglow] has turned a rich but undramatic life into a vignette as full of interest and details as one of Bewick’s own woodcuts.”—Sunday Telegrap