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Image of Nelson’s funeral car

Catalogue reference: LC 2/40 folio 80v


   

HOSTE DE VICTO REQUIEVIT NILE

 
 

[VI]CTORY

L’ORIENT

SAN JOSEF

 
   

TRAFALGAR

   
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A PERSPECTIVE VIEW
OF THE
GRAND FUNERAL CAR
WHICH CARRIED THE BODY OF THE MUCH LAMENTED
Lord Nelson
From the ADMIRALTY to St. PAULS, in great Procession, on the 9th January, 1806.

 
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So moves the Corpse upon the trophied Bier,
Mourn’d by his King! embalm’d with Englands Tear!
To that fam’d Church that lifts its tow’ring Head-
The future Mansion of the Patriot dead!
The Hero’s Manes there in Peace shall rest,
While his loved Image lives in ev’ry breast.
       Vide NELSON’S TOMB, a Poem, by W.T. Fitzgerald, Esq.

 

 
 
 
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