Gallery›Wellcome Collection›Drunken sailors round a table cheering and throwing their hats in the air as a man with a wooden leg recounts the Battle of the Nile. Reproduction of an etching by C. H., c. 1825, after G. Cruikshank.
Drunken sailors round a table cheering and throwing their hats in the air as a man with a wooden leg recounts the Battle of the Nile. Reproduction of an etching by C. H., c. 1825, after G. Cruikshank.
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Drunken sailors round a table cheering and throwing their hats in the air as a man with a wooden leg recounts the Battle of the Nile. Reproduction of an etching by C. H., c. 1825, after G. Cruikshank.

http://data.europeana.eu/agent/63272 · 1825

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Lettering: The battle of the Nile. The parlour of "the jolly sailor," Jack Rattlin - while giving a description of the Battle of the Nile - shouting "boarders on the starboard bow!" the entire company of "old nilers" rising enthusiastically to the spirit of the occasion. ; G. Cruikshank fect. ; C. H. sc.

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