Gallery›Wellcome Collection›An old sailor with wooden leg relates his adventures to a family as both men smoke and drink. Reproduction of an etching by G. Cruikshank, 1818, after J. Sheringham.
An old sailor with wooden leg relates his adventures to a family as both men smoke and drink. Reproduction of an etching by G. Cruikshank, 1818, after J. Sheringham.
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An old sailor with wooden leg relates his adventures to a family as both men smoke and drink. Reproduction of an etching by G. Cruikshank, 1818, after J. Sheringham.

John Sheringham · 1818

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Lettering: G. Cruikshank, after designs by Lieut. John Sheringham, R. N. 1818. The sailor's progress - 6. laid up - a Greenwich pensioner, relating his adventures. ...

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