Quadrupeds
Medium
Illustrations: wood engraving
Dimensions
11 1/8 × 7 1/2 × 1 7/8 in. (28.3 × 19.1 × 4.7 cm)
Classification
Books
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1931
Accession Number
31.69.2(1)
Tags
Dogs
About the Artist
Thomas Bewick|Edward Walker|William W. Temple
Thomas Bewick (c. 11 August 1753–8 November 1828) was born at Cherryburn in Mickley, Northumberland, the eldest of eight children to tenant farmers John and Jane Bewick. From a young age, he displayed a natural talent for drawing animals and birds observed in the local countryside, without formal art lessons. At age 14 in 1767, he was apprenticed to metal engraver Ralph Beilby in Newcastle upon Ty...