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Description: | This elegant swan is an engraving from Bewick's book, 'Water Birds' (1804) p.277. Here is the female swan, its 'snowy whiteness' contrasting against the dense dark foliage and deep water near the bank where it nests. It is a sad fact that when this was engraved in the late-eighteenth century cygnets (young swans) were eaten. Bewick was greatly influenced by the naturalist Count de Buffon but admitted sometimes Buffon 'hurried into the wild paths of conjecture and romance'. Perhaps Bewick hurried too when he tells us that it is said that swans can live for up to 300 years! | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Temporal: | Production date: 1796 to 1818 | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Creator: | Thomas Bewick | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/discoveringb... | Go to resource |
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