Porkopolis

Thomas Bewick

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• Common Boar

• (c. 1790), wood engraving
• 1.6 x 2.9 in. (4.1 x 7.4 cm.) [image only]
• 800 x 635 (81 KB)

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• Wild Boar

• (c. 1790), wood engraving
• 2.5 x 2.9 in. (6.2 x 7.4 cm.) [image only]
• 800 x 689 (83 KB)

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• The Pig-Sty Netty

• (c. 1797), wood engraving
• 1.6 x 2.9 in. (4 x 7.3 cm.) [image only]
• 800 x 469 (89 KB)

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• The Yoked Sow and the Thieving Piglets

• [vignette from “History of British Birds”]
• (c. 1824), wood engraving
• 1.9 x 2.9 in. (4.7 x 7.3 cm.) [image only]
• 800 x 582 (71 KB)

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• A Man Driving a Sow

• (c. 1790), wood engraving
• 1.2 x 2.8 in. (3 x 7.2 cm.) [image only]
• 800 x 398 (50 KB)

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About the Artist

Thomas Bewick, British, (1753 — 1828). Bewick was a printmaker and illustrator who revived the art of wood engraving and established it as the major printmaking technique in Britain where it was unrivaled as a graphic art technique in print media until the introduction of photography.