Marjery Scott’s epitaph in the parish church yard of Dunkeld in Scotland.
Pennecuik, Alexander,-1730.
Manchester : Publish'd Septr 1st 1809 by Vincent Zanetti print seller and gilder, 3 Wrights Court, Market St. Lane Manchester.,
1809.
Caption title.
An engraved and etched broadside.
Unrecorded Manchester printing of this epitaph of the centenarian woman Marjory Scott of Dunkeld (1627-1727) by Alexander Pennecuik. It was first published in 1728. The epitaph has only apparently ever existed on paper. The present text has been altered from the original, with for example, the length of the subject’s life increased from 100 to 120. The poem, a musing on longevity, Scottish history, and the fate of the country at the hands of the English, found favour amongst Scottish Jacobites and their memorialists. Mid-19th-century editions also appeared in nearby Preston. The publisher Vincent Zanetti, probably from Lake Garda, was active in Manchester between 1804 and 1833 as a carver, gilder, looking-glass and picture frame maker and printseller.
Scott, Marjory, 1627-1727.
England Manchester.