Captain Newcome is shaved roughly before being dunked in a tub of bilge water on the Equator. A sailor dressed as Neptune holds a trident and sits on a throne on a gun carriage. Other midshipmen in wigs as Naiads blow horns. Another holds a rough iron hoop used as a shaving razor. 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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