On the South side of Ovingham Church there is this tablet—
In Memory of
ROBERT JOHNSON,
Painter and Engraver.
A NATIVE OF THIS PARISH.
Who died at Kenmore in Perthshire,
The 29th, of October, 1796.
IN THE 26th, YEAR OF HIS AGE.
Thomas Bewick.
Thomas Bewick died at his house on the Windmill-Hills, Gateshead, November the 8th, 1828, in the seventy-sixth year of his age, and on the 13th he was buried in the family burial-place at Ovingham, where his parents, wife, and brother were interred.
“O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?”