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An elegie to the memory of Richard Earl of Tyrconnel : late Deputy of Ireland, and General of the bog-trotting army, who departed this life in Limerick, on Tuesday August the 8th. 1691.

The wheel of Fortune, showing the rise and fall of European powers. Etching and letterpress, ca. 1689.

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Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell

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An elegie to the memory of Richard Earl of Tyrconnel : late Deputy of Ireland, and General of the bog-trotting army, who departed this life in Limerick, on Tuesday August the 8th. 1691.

The wheel of Fortune, showing the rise and fall of European powers. Etching and letterpress, ca. 1689.