Image: Bewick's Swan woodcut by Robert Bewick
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Description: Woodcut by Robert Elliot Bewick of the swan named after his father by William Yarrell. The bird did not appear in the first edition of Thomas Bewick's A History of British Birds; it was named by William Yarrell after Thomas Bewick's death. This image is scanned from the 1847 edition, which was the last "live" edition of the book.
Title: Bewick's Swan woodcut by Robert Bewick
Credit: own scan of page from Thomas Bewick's A History of British Birds, Bewick, 1847, Volume 2, page 273
Author: Robert Bewick
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