JOHN BEWICK. 



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" whose private virtues and professional talents I equally admired; so much 

 so, indeed, that, as a grateful tribute to his memory, I have clothed myself in 

 mourning. His death has affected me in a manner that has much depressed 

 my spirits." Thomas was also greatly grieved at his brother's early death ; 

 and, as he affectionately says in his Memoir, he put up a stone to his memory 

 on the west wall of Ovingham Church, just above the family graves, " where 

 I hope when my glass is run out to be laid down beside him." The inscrip- 

 tion thereon is brief, but in its few words it comprehends the character of 

 John Bewick's life, which is summed up in the words, "His Ingenuity as 

 an Artist was excelled only by his Conduct as a Man." 



The Hermit at his Morning Devotions. Drawn by John Johnson. Engraved by T. Bewick. 

 From Poems by Goldsmith and Pamell. 



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