An English naval officer re-unites a daughter with her father. Admiral Bowsprit brings rescued odalisk Ellen to meet bed-ridden Old Primrose in the poor-house. A maid looks on. 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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