Regency men wave bills at a fleeing English naval officer
A group of angry men wave bills at a departing English Regency naval officer at a Portsmouth dock. Admiral Bowsprit flees his gambling creditors in a rowboat to rejoin the fleet anchored off the coast of England. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Charles Williams from The Post Captain, or Adventures of a True British Tar by a Naval Officer, J. Johnston, London, 1817. Attributed to Alfred Thornton or John Mitford
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