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Description: | Thomas Bewick's pencil concentrates on the dead creature's forefeet turned towards us. He tells us that it burrows underground easily because of these wonderful feet! 'They are quite naked, very broad, with large palms, almost like a hand; five toes on each, terminated with strong nails, very concave on the under side, and in the place of a thumb, a strong bone under the skin.' Bewick sketched on any scrap of paper to hand - this piece has also been used for calculations. This is a pencil transfer drawing for the engraving in his book 'A General History of Quadrupeds' (1790) p.365. | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Temporal: | Production date: 1790 | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Creator: | Thomas Bewick | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/discoveringb... | Go to resource |
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