Special and Named Printed Collections in the National Library of Scotland
Prints in the Walter Blaikie Collection on deposit in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
| Shelfmark: | 1.4 |
| Title: | An elegy on the much lamented death of His Royal Highness William, Duke of Cumberland, who died suddenly on Thursday, October 31, 1765, at his house in Grosvenor-Square, in the 46th year of his age. |
| Description: | On the death of Cumberland.
Broadsheet with Title at top, followed by a picture of a man and some kind of column with a candle structure on the top surrounded by two columns. Below that are two columns of verse, lamenting the death of the Duke of Cumberland |
| Subject: | William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765 |
| Medium: | Broadsheet |
| References: | WB 141 |
| Notes: | Letterpress item. Single sheet, with two columns of poetry, headed by a crude woodcut of the duke. Not in NLS, not in ESTC
Faded in spots |
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