Captain Newcome presents a captured French flag to Admiral Horatio Nelson in Palermo, Sicily, 1799. Nelson stands on the dock with his mistress Emma Hamilton and her aged husband Sir William Hamilton. Flag of the Kingdom of Sicily flies from a building. Palermo Pier. Newcome Victorious. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Charles Williams from John Mitford’s Adventures of Johnny Newcome in the Navy, London, 1819.

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