An English naval officer embraces a veiled woman on a rowboat tender. Admiral Bowsprit rescues English odalisk Ellen from sexual slavery in a Moor's harem. Turbaned seraglio guards and eunuchs with torches search near a cave on the shore. 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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