Thomas Bewick, the wood engraver, born at Cherryburn, near Newcastle-on-Tyne, in 1753, died 1828. He revived the art of wood engraving in England. His illustrations—drawn for the General History of British Quadrupeds (1790), and for his own History of British Birds (1797 and l804)—were unrivalled in their way.—Ed.
Charles Lamb, writing to Wordsworth in 1815, spoke of
"that delicacy towards aberrations from the strict path, which is so fine in the 'Old Thief and the Boy by his side,' which always brings water into my eyes."
(See Letters of Charles Lamb, edited by Alfred Ainger, vol. i. p. 287.)—Ed.