Dedication
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William Pengelly
Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Wills
A View of the Celebrated Logan Rock, near Land’s End in Cornwall
A View of the Southern Part of Castle Treryn, showing the Machinery erected for the purpose of replacing the Logan Rock
Hugh Peters
James Polkinghorne, the Famous Cornish Wrestler
Henry Trengrouse, the Inventor of the Rocket Apparatus for Saving Life at Sea
The Wreck of the “Anson”
“Parson Rudall”
John Couch Adams
John Couch Adams
The Cheese-wring
Nevill Norway
Sir William Lower
This cup has been recently valued at the sum of £4000. It measures just two feet in height
George Carter Bignell
John Ralfs
Sir John Call, Bart.
Whiteford—the Residence of Sir John Call
John Knill
Glass inscribed “Success to the Eagle Frigate, John Knill, Commander”
Anthony Payne
Nevil Northey Burnard
Wesley’s Head over the Old Meeting-house, Penpont, Altarnon. Cut by Burnard when 16 years of age
Tombstones in Altarnon Churchyard. Cut by Burnard
Dorothy Pentreath of Mousehole in Cornwall. The last Person who could Converse in the Cornish Language
Monschole, in Mount’s Bay, from the Island
Samuel Foote
The Duel between Lord Mohun and the Duke of Hamilton
Sir William Noye, Attorney-General to King Charles the First
Samuel Drew
Henry Rogers, Pewterer
Sir James Tillie, Knt.
James Silk Buckingham
At Prussia Cove. “Bessy’s” Cove from Battery Point
John Carter’s House at Prussia Cove. (Demolished in 1906)
Vice-Admiral Sir Charles V. Penrose, k.c.b.
Thomas Killigrew, Groom of the Bedchamber to King Charles the Second
Lieutenant Philip Gidley King
William R. Hicks
John Thomas, otherwise Sir William Courtenay, who shot Lieutenant Bennet in Basenden Wood, Boughton, near Canterbury, and the Constable Mears, on Thursday, May 31st, 1838.
Mary Kelynack
John Burton of Falmouth
Ann Glanville
Davies Gilbert
John Harris, the Miner Poet
Memorial Brass in the Church of Landulph
Notes
2 From a painting by A. S. Cope, reproduced by permission of Mrs. H. Forbes Julian
12 From an engraving by Simon, after a picture by M. Dahl
18 Taken after the Rock was displaced on the 8th of April, 1824. From a lithograph by Vibert, after a drawing by Tonkin
22 From a lithograph by Vibert, after a drawing by Tonkin
26 From an old engraving
54 From a drawing as he appeared in the Ring at Devonport on Monday, 23 October, 1826, when he threw Ab ̱ͫ. Cann, the Champion of Devonshire, for a stake of 200 sovereigns
60 From an oil painting by Opie the younger, reproduced by permission of Mr. H. Trengrouse
66 From a sketch by Mr. H. Trengrouse
72 From a painting in the possession of the Rev. S. Baring-Gould
84 From a mezzotint by Samuel Cousins, a.r.a., after a picture by Thomas Mogford. From the collection of Mrs. Lewis Lane
92 From an etching by Letitia Byrne, after a drawing by J. Farington, r.a.
118 From a painting in the possession of Miss A. T. Norway
126 The Killygrew Cup
134 “1633. from maior to maior to the towne of permarin, where they received mee that was in great misery”
Jane Killygrew
142 From a photograph
146 Reproduced by permission of Miss Loveday E. Drake
154 From a portrait (by A. Hickle) in the possession of his great-granddaughter, Mrs. de Lacy Lacy
164 From a drawing in the possession of Mrs. de Lacy Lacy
170 After a picture by Opie in the possession of Captain Rogers, of Penrose
172 From the collection of Percy Bate, Esq., of Glasgow
182 From a painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, purchased by Sir Robert Harvey, High Sheriff of Cornwall, 1901, and presented to the Institute of Cornwall
186 From a bas-relief by the sculptor himself, in the possession of S. Pearn, Esq., Altarnon
188 Tombstones cut by Burnard
188 That on the right is upon the grave of his grandfather in Altarnon Churchyard, and was cut when the sculptor was only 14 years old; the one on the left is in Bodmin Churchyard
190 Sir Goldsworthy Gurney
192 From a lithograph by W. Sharp, after a drawing by S. C. Smith
232 From a drawing by R. Scadden
238 From a drawing by Captain Tremenhere
280 The Last Lord Mohun
298 From a mezzotint by I. Faber, after a picture by Sir Godfrey Kneller
312 From a contemporary mezzotint in the British Museum
330 Sir William Lemon, Bart., M.P. for Cornwall
342 From an engraving by J. H. Meyer
346 From an engraving by R. Hicks, after a painting by F. Moore
364 Charles Incledon, as Macheath
376 From an engraving by J. Thomson, after a painting by Singleton
400 Sir James Tillie’s Monument at Pentillie
406 Edward John Trelawny
442 From a drawing by D. Lucas
456 Mrs. Davenport, in the Character of Mrs. Grundy
466 From an engraving by Ridley, after a picture by De Wilde
470 From a drawing in the possession of J. B. Cornish, Esq.
476 From a photograph by Gibson & Sons, Penzance
500 From a picture by Allingham
544 From an engraving by I. Vander vaart, after a picture by W. Wissens
560 From an engraving by W. Skelton, after a drawing by J. Wright
570 William R. Hicks of Bodmin
576 From a Caricature
594 Percy Honeywood Courtenay, Knight of Malta, etc. etc., as he appeared at the Election in 1832
620 Captain W. Rogers
624 From an engraving by Ridley and Blood, after a picture by Drummond
628 Sir Cloudesley Shovel
676 From a mezzotint by Samuel Cousins, a.r.a., after a picture by Henry Howard, r.a. From the collection of Mrs. Lewis Lane
692 The Right Hon. John Earl of Radnor: Baron Roberts of Truro
718 After Sir Godfrey Kneller
728 Reproduced by permission of E. H. W. Dunkin, Esq., f.s.a., from his book on Cornish Brasses