A scene at a ball in Gibraltar during the Napoleonic Wars
A scene at a ball in Gibraltar during the Napoleonic Wars. Admiral Bowsprit proposes to a young Castilian maid on the sofa. Ladies in plumed headdresses watch the seduction. Others dance with army and naval officers under a chandelier. 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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