LANCASHIRE.- Experience an anarchic world in miniature, revealed through the delicate, painstaking skill of Thomas Bewick (1753–1828). Tale-pieces is an exhibition devoted entirely to the vignettes of the extraordinary artist-engraver and naturalist, Thomas Bewick. Born at Cherryburn in Northumberland, Bewick spent his childhood on a small farm on the banks of the River Tyne. His surroundings instilled in him a life-long love of the countryside, rural life, and the natural world, that was to profoundly influence his work. The artist spent his working life in Newcastle and became renowned for his mesmerisingly detailed woodcuts of animals and birds. He produced hundreds of illustrations for some of the greatest natural history encyclopaedias of his age, General History of Quadrupeds and History of British Birds, which remain truly remarkable in their beauty and accuracy. Among the main illustrations appear Bewick’s Tale-pieces (so called because they appeared at the b