CHAPTER VII.
REVIVAL OF WOOD ENGRAVING.

English wood-cuts in 1712—howel’s medulla historiæ anglicanæ—maittaire’s classics 1713—e. kirkall—his chiaro-scuros—cuts in croxall’s æsop, 1722—j. b. jackson—chiaro-scuros engraved by him at venice, 1738-1742—french wood engravers, 1710-1768; j. m. papillon, m. le sueur, and p. s. fournier—english wood-cuts, 1760-1772—cuts in sir john hawkins’s history of music, 1776—thomas bewick—his first wood-cuts, in hutton’s mensuration, 1768-1770—cuts by him in a hieroglyphic bible—in fables, 1779-1784—his cut of the chillingham bull—his quadrupeds, british birds, and fables—john bewick—cuts by him in emblems of mortality, and other books—poems by goldsmith and parnell—somerviles’s chase—robert johnson, designer of several of the tail-pieces in bewick’s works—charlton nesbit—luke clennell—william harvey—robert branston—john thompson, and others.