| Description Of Item | Colour illustration of the execution of William Burke, with a crowd gathered by, as well as a colour illustration of a toast by a group of people.
Text reads ‘Genuine speech, 12 Feb 1829/ ‘Gentlemen, - I am an older man than any of you, permit me therefore to give you this advice; - never allow yourselves to be too much elevated or depressed by trifles.’’
‘The Newington auto da fe, - or quite pleased with their subject, although noxii generis.’
‘Quickly, and gaily, they pull’d him on high/from the field of his fame, fresh and gory/they served him a line;- he look’d vastly shy:- and expir’d in the blaze of his glory.!!!’ – Wolfe
No IV, Noxiana, RH Nimmo’s Lithog Edinburgh.
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