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Description: | This fine watercolour of the reed sparrow is by the North East artist and wood-engraver Thomas Bewick. It was made for his engraving in his book, 'Land Birds', published in 1797. This painting shows all the different colours of the bird that Bewick describes so fully in the book - from its 'hazel eyes' to 'the streak of black down the middle of each feather.' The bird is known today as the reed bunting. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | artists animals North East watercolours art designers North East artists people natural world | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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