Dorothy Dolly Pentreath of Mousehole in Cornwall (d. 1777), formerly Dorothy Jeffery, the last person who could converse in the Cornish language. Old fisherwoman in bonnet and shawl, surrounded by a fishing net, crabs, fish, eels, lobsters, ropes, basket, jug and tobacco pipes. Copperplate engraving after a portrait by R. Scaddan, published by I. Hinton at the Kings Arms in Paternoster Row, London, 1781.

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