Kommentar: Bewick (1753-1828) er mest kjent for sitt verk om britisk fugleliv A History of British Birds. From the introduction: “Thomas Bewick’s autobiographical Memoir … owes its repoutation as a minor classic to two principal facts: first, that as a record of a north-country childhood and of a craftsman’s life and work in the latter half of the eighteenth century it is unique, and secondly, that the achievement of its author as an artist-engraver on wood had no precedent and remains unequalled.”