A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . THOMAS BEWICK. On his return to Newcastle he appeared for a short time to enjoy hisusual health and spirits. On the Saturday preceding his death he tookthe block of the Old Horse waiting for Death to the printers, and had itproved; on the following Monday ho became unw^ell, and after a fewdays illness he ceased to exist. He died at his house on the Windmill-hills, Gateshead, on the 8th of November, 1828, aged seventy-five. Hewas buried at Ovingham, and the following cut represents a view of the REVIVAL OF WOOD ENGRAVING. 511 place of h
A treatise on wood engravings : historical and practical . THOMAS BEWICK. On his return to Newcastle he appeared for a short time to enjoy hisusual health and spirits. On the Saturday preceding his death he tookthe block of the Old Horse waiting for Death to the printers, and had itproved; on the following Monday ho became unw^ell, and after a fewdays illness he ceased to exist. He died at his house on the Windmill-hills, Gateshead, on the 8th of November, 1828, aged seventy-five. Hewas buried at Ovingham, and the following cut represents a view of the REVIVAL OF WOOD ENGRAVING. 511 place of his interment, near the west end of the church. The tabletsseen in the wall are those erected to the memory of himself and hisbrother The following are the inscriptions on the tablets In Memory of JOHN BEWICK, Engraver, Who died December, 5, 1795, Aged 35 years. His Ingenuity as an Artist was excelled only by his Conduct as a Man. TheBurial Place ofTHOMAS BEWICK, Engiaver,, his Wife,Died 1st February, 1826, Aged 72 years. THOMAS BEWICK, Died 8th of November, 1828, Aged 75 years. In an excellent notice of the works of Bewick—apparently writtenby one of his townsmen (said to be Mr. T. Doubleday)—in BlackwoodsMagazine for July, 1825, it is stated that the final tail-piece to BewicksFables, 1818-1823, is A View of Ovingham Churchyard ; and in theReverend AVilliam Turners Memoir of Thomas Bewick, in the sixthvolume of the Naturalists Library, the same statement is repeated. Itis, however, erroneous ; as both the writers might have known had theythought it worth their while to pay a visit to Ovingham, and take a look 512 KEVIVAL OF WOOD ENGRAVING. at the church. The following cut, in which is introdu
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