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| Engraved portrait of Dorothy Pentreath, otherwise Dolly Pentreath, of Paul near Mousehole, Cornwall (c. 1692-1777), published 1781 |
"Here, [at Mousehole] rather more than a hundred years ago, died Dolly Pentreath, at the age of 102, the last person supposed to have been able to speak the old Cornish dialect. She is buried in the churchyard of St Paul's, a village close by Mousehole, and Prince Lucien Buonaparte erected in it a monument to her memory."
Valentine (undated)
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