Funeral of the late Right Honorable William Pitt. Admit [blank] into the procession
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Engraved admission ticket for the funeral procession of William Pitt the Younger, who was buried in Westminster Abbey on 22 February 1806. In the lower left, an allegorical figure of death leans on a plinth decorated with Pitt's coats of arms on the front and Latin phrase (illegible) on the side. At Death's side is a heron with its foot resting on an anchor. The text and image of Death are enclosed within a decorated border with a laurel wreath at the top and symbols of mortality on the bottom and sides: winged skulls and an hourglass with wings