Travels and Partnership
Channel: TheBewickSociety
Date: 2021-06-24

At the end of his apprenticeship Bewick sets out on a long journey from Newcastle to Cumbria and then throughout Scotland. He made most of the journey on foot before returning by boat. He then decides to move to London for an extended period. Discouraged, ill and howmesick he returns to Newcastle to set up in partnership with his old master.

Words from Newcastle City Guide Anthony Atkinson

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'After the completion of his apprenticeship, Bewick decided to enjoy his liberty, which in his Memoir he describes as “a time of great enjoyment”, by setting out alone on foot on a five hundred-mile tour of Scotland. On his return to Newcastle he immediately took a passage on a collier bound for London to try his luck in the “great city”. Bewick disliked London, although he could easily have set up business there, and he returned home to Newcastle as soon as he was able, resuming his association with Ralph Beilby in 1777 as his partner. '