A drunken sailor is enticed by a prostitute into a brothel in an alley near Plymouth Dock, Regency era. A nightwatchman watches from the Lord Nelson pub. Three Cyprians drag Captain Bowsprit to a bed to rob him. 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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