Johnny and other Midshipmen on shore leave attend a play at Plymouth Playhouse. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by W. Read after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from Alfred Burton's The Adventures of Johnny Newcombe in the Navy, Simpkin, London, 1818.

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