Bewick, Thomas, a distinguished wood-engraver, born in Northumberland, apprenticed to the trade in Newcastle; showed his art first in woodcuts for his “History of Quadrupeds,” the success of which led to the publication of his “History of British Birds,” in which he established his reputation both as a naturalist, in the truest sense, and an artist (1753‒1828).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Bevis of Southampto * Bewick, William