Volume 23, Number 15 · September 30, 1976
The Mark of Bewick
By Henri Zerner
A Memoir of Thomas Bewick: Written by Himself
edited by Iain Bain
Oxford University Press, 258 pp., $21.00
Readers of The New York Review have often seen the vignettes of Thomas Bewick. But even they may be somewhat surprised to read Ruskin's bold claim: 'I know no drawing so subtle as Bewick's since the fifteenth century, except Holbein's and Turner's.' Wordsworth was still more eloquent:
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