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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.
  • Smokers in a Turkish coffee house listen eagerly to news brought by a courier. Lithograph by J. Nash, 1843, after D. Wilkie, 1840.
  • A wizened old woman with her dog, with the story of their bravery at the battles of Belgrade and Dettinghen. Line engraving, c.1743, after Winder.
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    A wizened old woman with her dog, with the story of their bravery at the battles of Belgrade and Dettinghen. Line engraving, c.1743, after Winder.

    Winder. | Date: 1743 | Reference: 24153i
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    Smokers in a Turkish coffee house listen eagerly to news brought by a courier. Lithograph by J. Nash, 1843, after D. Wilkie, 1840.

    Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785-1841. | Date: 1843 | Reference: 25645i
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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.

    Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878. | Date: 1 July 1825 | Reference: 26924i
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