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Bittern in the reeds

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Ground Cream

Ink Black

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130mm Rustic Handmade Glazed Ceramic Tile Plain white £17.99

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Size
130 × 130mm
Material
Glazed ceramic, handmade
Suitable for
Indoors only
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The matching plain white
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Bittern in the reeds

Design no. 223709

Herons, grebes, gulls and the small country scenes between them, engraved on wood by Thomas Bewick.

Design no.
223709
Department
Archival & Collage
Collection
Bewick’s Water Birds
Source
Thomas Bewick, A History of British Birds, Vol. II: Water Birds (Newcastle, 1847), page 47
Technique
Engraving
Style
Bewick’s white-line wood engraving: tonal, miniature, exact
Subject
Birds
Colour
Black on cream as standard
Form
Single tile
Symmetry
Asymmetric
Complexity
Complex

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Bittern in the reeds