Excerpt from Bewick Gleanings: Being Impressions From Copperplates and Wood Blocks, Engraved in the Bewick Workshop, Remaining in the Possession of the Family Until the Death of the Last Miss. Bewick, and Sold Afterwards by Order of Her Executors

In 1880, a Bewick exhibition was held by the Fine Art Society in New Bond Street, London, to which the Misses. Bewick kindly lent many of the treasures held by them; then, for the first time, the London public realized the fact that Thomas Bewick had been an exquisite painter In water colours as well as a designer onfwood. The interest ex pressed in their father's beautiful little water-colours induced the Misses Bewick to present them to the British Museum, where they now hang on screens in the King's Library, These ladies had still almost unlimited treasures left, for, not withstanding this gift, and the fact that they had parted with many valuable blocks, two of the rare impressions of the Chillingham Bull, on vellum, and some water - colour drawings to Mr. Hugo and others, they gave to mr..joseph Crawhall, of Newcastle, their father's box of tools, and they were still able to empower their executors to present to the Museum of the Natural History Society, in Newcastle, a splendid series of their father's drawings and designs, a'portrait of himself and son, and his own copy of the Chillingham Bull on vellum, etc.

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