Publisher/Manufacturer: David Esslemont Series title: Luke Clennell: Bewick Apprentice (plate 9)
1981 Wood engraving in black, with letterpress in grey, on white BFK Rives Velin Cuve paper
55 x 77 mm. Purchase: David Esslemont 1991 Funding support: Catherine Lewis Trust
Illustration from 'Luke Clennell: Bewick Apprentice' (1981), a book printed by David Esslemont from the original wood blocks engraved by Luke Clennell. The original wood block was used to illustrate Solomon Hodgson's 'The Hive of Ancient and Modern Literature', published in Newcastle, 1806
Book illustration of the Northumberland lifeboat from 'Luke Clennell: Bewick Apprentice'; foreground, a rowing boat with eleven oarsmen on stormy seas rescues an overboard mariner; background, a shipwreck and a ruined castle (Tynemouth Castle and Priory?) on a rocky headland. Engraved border
