Chapter VII: Revival of Wood Engraving, 446-548

Initial letter A, from a French book, 1698 446
Fox and Goat, from a copper-plate by S. Le Clerc, about
1694 450
The same subject from Croxall’s Æsop’s Fables, 1722 450
The same subject from Bewick’s Fables, 1818-1823 451
English wood-cut with the mark F. H., London, 1724 453
Adam naming the animals, copy of a cut by Papillon, 1734 460
The Pedagogue, from the Ship of Fools, Pynson, 1509 468
The Poet’s Fall, from Two Odes in ridicule of Gray and
Mason, London, 1760 470
Initial letters, T. and B., composed by J. Jackson from
tail-pieces in Bewick’s History of British Birds 471
The house in which Bewick was born, drawn by J. Jackson 472
The Parsonage at Ovingham, drawn by George Balmer 473
Fac-simile of a diagram engraved by Bewick in Hutton’s
Mensuration, 1768-1770 475
The Old Hound, a fac-simile of a cut by Bewick, 1775 476
Original cut of the Old Hound 477
Cuts copied by Bewick from Der Weiss Kunig, and
illustrations of Ovid’s Metamorphoses by Virgilium Solis 483
Boys and Ass, after Bewick 485
Old Man and Horse, ditto 486
Child and young Horse, ditto 487
Ewe and Lamb 488
Old Man and young Wife, ditto 488
Common Duck, ditto 493
Partridge, ditto 495
Woodcock, ditto 496
The drunken Miller, ditto 499
The Snow Man, ditto 499
Old Man and Cat, ditto 500
Crow and Lamb, Bewick’s original cut to the Fable of the
Eagle 503
The World turned upside down, after Bewick 504
Cuts commemorative of the decease of Bewick’s father and
mother, from his Fables, 1818-1823 506
Bewick’s Workshop, drawn by George Balmer 508
Portrait of Bewick 510
View of Bewick’s Burial-place 511
Funeral, View of Ovingham Church, drawn by J. Jackson 512
The sad Historian, from a cut by John Bewick, in Poems by
Goldsmith and Parnell, 1795 515
Fac-simile of a cut by John Bewick, from Blossoms of
Morality 516
Copy of a cut engraved by C. Nesbit, from a drawing by
R. Johnson 518
View of a monument erected to the memory of R. Johnson,
against the south wall of Ovingham Church 518
Copy of a view of St. Nicholas Church, engraved by
C. Nesbit, from a drawing by R. Johnson 519
Copy of the cut for the Diploma of the Highland Society,
engraved by L. Clennell, from a drawing by Benjamin West 523
Bird and Flowers, engraved by L. Clennell, when insane 526
Seven Engravings by William Harvey, from Dr. Henderson’s
History of Wines 530
Milton, designed by W. Harvey, engraved by John Thompson 531
Three Illustrations by W. Harvey, engraved by S. Williams,
Orrin Smith, and C. Gray 532
Cut from the Children in the Wood, drawn by W. Harvey, and
engraved by J. Thompson 533
Cut from the Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green, drawn by
W. Harvey, and engraved by C. Nesbit 534
Copy of a part of the Cave of Despair, engraved by
R. Branston, from a drawing by J. Thurston 535
Three cuts engraved by Robert Branston, after designs by
Thurston, for an edition of Select Fables, in rivalry of
Bewick 537
Bird, engraved by Robert Branston 538
Pistill Cain, in North Wales, drawn and engraved by Hugh
Hughes 539
Moel Famau, ditto, ditto 539
Wrexham Church, ditto, ditto 540
Pwll Carodoc, ditto, ditto 540
Salmon, Group of Fish, and Chub, engraved by John Thompson 541
Pike, by Robert Branston 542
Eel, by H. White 542
Illustration from Hudibras, engraved by John Thompson 543
Hogarth’s Rake’s Progress, engraved by John Thompson 544
The Temptation, engraved by John Jackson, after John Martin 545
The Judgment of Adam and Eve, engraved by F. W. Branston,
after ditto 545
The Assuaging of the Waters, engraved by E. Landells, after
ditto 546
The Deluge, engraved by W. H. Powis, after ditto 546
The Tower of Babel engraved by Thomas Williams, after ditto 547
The Angel announcing the Nativity, engraved by W. T. Green,
after ditto 547
Tail piece-- Vignette, engraved by W. T. Green, after
W. Harvey 548