Dorothy Pentreath, last Cornish language speaker

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

1781 18th Century Crabs Eels Fisherwoman Fishing Net Gaelic Kings Arms Language Lobsters Mousehole Old Woman Oval Portrait Paternoster Row Ropes Speaker

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