The Quidam Association of old Royal Navy sailors meeting in a pub. Wounded veterans drunk on punch in The Jolly Sailor, some with wooden legs, crutches, eyepatches. Jack Rattlin stands on the table recounting Nelson's victory at the Battle of the Nile, 1798. 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.

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