MEMOIR OF THOMAS BEWICK. 41 



remains were accompanied by a numerous train of 

 friends, to the family burial-place at Ovingham, and 

 deposited along with his parents, his wife (who had 

 died February 1. 1826, aged 72), and his brother 

 previously mentioned.* 



Much more might be said of this distinguished 

 artist. More has been said. In Blackwood's Maga- 

 zine (for 1825), there is a very elegant critique 

 upon Mr Bewick's works, f In the first volume of 

 the Transactions of the Natural History Society of 

 Newcastle, p. 132, is a Memoir of Mr Bewick, by 

 George Clayton Atkinson, Esq., whose love of na- 

 ture led him, while very young, to seek the acquaint- 

 ance of our native artist, who was always ready to 

 encourage rising merit. But amidst much judicious 

 remark, there is a detail of particular conversations, 

 &c. which, though highly interesting in this particu- 

 lar neighbourhood, would probably not be so to the 

 public at large. In the third volume of Audubon's 



* There is an affecting tail-piece (the final one in his 

 Fables, 1820), in which he describes " The End of All," 

 representing his own funeral, with a view of the west end 

 of Ovingham church, and the two family monuments fixed 

 in the wail. And it may be interesting also to notice, as 

 a proof of that family-attachment mentioned in p. 36, that 

 the tail-piece in p. 16*2 of his Fables bears the date of his 

 mother's, and that in p. 176 of his father's death. 



f For an extract from which, see Note, p. 31. 



