English sailors drinking and dancing in a pub

English sailors drinking and dancing in a pub, Napoleonic era. Midshipmen dance with prostitutes, drink punch, beer and wine, play cards, fall asleep drunk. The bar is decorated with a Union Jack, a hulk, anchors and lamps. Sailors Carousing, or a Peep in the Long Room. Handcoloured lithograph by George Cruikshank from Greenwich Hospital, a Series of Naval Sketches, by An Old Sailor (Matthew H. Barker), published by James Robins, London, 1826

1826 Anchors Anecdote Asleep Drunk George Cruikshank Greenwich Hospital Horatio Nelson Hulk Lamps Matthew H. Barker Midshipmen Napoleonic Era Napoleonic War Nautical Old Sailor Prostitutes Royal Navy Series Of Naval Sketches Union Jack

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