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The engraved scene of The Harleston Hunt records its presentation as a gift to Edward Dewing of Guist, Norfolk in 1808 by the gentlemen of the Harleston Hunt. The engraving is recorded in Thomas Bewick's account book as costing £3 13s 6d.  Thomas Bewick was better known as an engraver of animals and birds and his attitude towards hunting and shooting was ambiguous","physicalDescription":"Silver, oblong with rounded corners, raised border with gadrooned edge resting on four hoof and ball feet.  Engraved with a hunting scene by Thomas Bewick (1753-1828).","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Robertson, Ann","id":"A10653"},"association":{"text":"maker","id":"AAT251917"},"note":""},{"name":{"text":"Thomas Bewick","id":"A6564"},"association":{"text":"engraver","id":"x30810"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"silver","id":"AAT11029"}],"techniques":[{"text":"engraving (incising)","id":"AAT53829"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Silver, sheet metal; engraved decoration","categories":[{"text":"Metalwork","id":"THES48920"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"MET","id":"THES48599"},"images":["2010EF0629","2013GR2280","2013GR2281","2013GR2282","2013GR2283","2017JU9930"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"68","id":"THES49730"},"free":"","case":"9","shelf":"DR10","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Salver","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Newcastle","id":"x29507"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1808-1809","earliest":"1808-05-29","latest":"1809-05-28"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[{"object":{"text":"E.372-1943","id":"O726605"},"association":""}],"creditLine":"Gift of Mr. Kerrison Preston through The Art Fund","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Length","value":"37.75","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"29","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Weight","value":"1338.70","unit":"g","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"On base: maker, Ann Robertson, duty, sterling, Newcastle mark, date for 1808-9\r\nInscribed 'Presented by the Gentlemen of the Harleston Hunt to Mr. Dewing of Guist, March, 1808'.","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":"A8728"},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":""},{"content":"Inscribed, Presented by the Gentlemen of the Harleston Hunt to Mr Dewing of Guist, March 1808.","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":"A8728"},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"The Prints & Drawings collections have an engraved portrait of Edward Dewing by Charles Fox (1794-1849) No. E.372-1943"}],"objectHistory":"Acquisition RF: Mr K Preston per NACF\nGift - Through K Preston per NACF\nThe mark is Ann Robertson, widow of John Robertson. Ann Robertson continued managing the workshops after her husband died and continued the relationship with Bewick.\n\nThe salver was presented to mark Dewing's gift of a pack of hounds reported in The Norfolk Gazette 24 March 1808. Edward Dewing was killed as a result of an accident in the hunting-field in 1827. His death was reported in The Ipswich Journal Saturday 24 March 1827.\n\r\n'Monday last died, in the 59th year of his age Edward Dewing Esqu. of Guist, in this county. It was whilst enjoying his favourite exercise, the chase, that about a fortnight ago, he was seized with a fit of apoplexy, dropped from his horse, but did not sustain any injury from the fall, it being a ploughed land. Under the effects, however, of a second attack of the same disorder, he expired, to the sincere regret of his family and friends.'","historicalContext":"Mr S H Steel, letter dated 1 July 2010, wrote that Thomas Bewick's 'Weekly Engraving Book' records for 22 August 1808  a payment to Hewitson for 'Engraving a Silver Waiter for Mr Dewing of Guist' £3-13-6d. 'It is likely that the silver waiter was sent to Henry Hewitson Esquire (agent) by Sarah Dewing (wife of Edward) from Guist during June/July 1808. She probably used the Yarmouth Office of the Union Society which later became the Norwich Union Insurance Company but at that time covered 6 million properties etc and a Richard Dewing was Director. The Town Clerk of Yarmouth was Sarah Dewing's brother and they were frequent visitors. Sarah Dewing when she died in 1838 only singled out the silver waiter from her extensive fortune and specifically mentions Bewick'.\r\n\r\nHenry Hewitson has multiple entries in Thomas Bewick's  Workshop 'Weekly Engraving Book' and 'Daily Cash Received Book'.","briefDescription":"Silver, Newcastle hallmarks for 1808-9, mark of Ann Robertson, engraving by Thomas Bewick","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Charles Oman, <u>English Engraved Silve</u><u>r, 1150-1900</u>. London; Boston : Faber &amp; Faber, 1978. ISBN 0571104983"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Montague Weekley, Country Life, 7 March 1968, p.540"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Oman, Charles C. Thomas Bewick as an Engraver of Plate. <u>Apollo</u>, vol. 39, May-June 1944, p. 146."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Clark, J. W. The Copper Plate of the Goldsmiths Company of Newcastle Upon Tyne. <u>Archaeologia Aeliana</u>, 1969."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[{"text":"Hunting scene","id":"N3727"}],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"gadroons","id":"x38295"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["M.10-1943"],"accessionNumberNum":"10","accessionNumberPrefix":"M","accessionYear":1943,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-30","recordCreationDate":"2004-03-03","availableToBook":false}}