print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1882,0311.2309
- Description
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Hedgehog, or Urchin, walking in a field in profile to right; illustration to Ralph Beilby's 'A General History of Quadrupeds' (Newcastle upon Tyne: 1790).
Wood-engraving
- Production date
- 1780-1790 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 33 millimetres (image)
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Width: 77 millimetres (image)
- Curator's comments
- Transfer drawing by Bewick is in the collection of the Natural History Society of Northumbria - see illustration in Iain Bain's 'The Watercolours and Drawings of Thomas Bewick and his Workshop Apprentices', London: 1981, I, p.120. First published in the 1790 edition of 'A General History of Quadrupeds' on p.423. The copy of the 1791 edition held at the British Museum's Prints and Drawings Department contains a different (earlier?) state of the print, featuring horizontal lines in nearly the entire foreground.
See 1882,0311.3426 for another impression.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: A General History of Quadrupeds
- Acquisition date
- 1882
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1882,0311.2309
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: I.B. 1993
