MEMOIR OF THOMAS BEWICK. 
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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. j- 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. 162 of his Fables bears the date of his 
mother’s, and that in p. 176 of his father’s death. 
+ For an extract from which, see Note, p. 31. 
