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An English sailor extends an oar to save a drowning Arab chief, Regency era. While other Moors pray to Allah to save him. Royal Navy matelots use oars and pikes to bring a rowboat near a man-of-war. 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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An English sailor extends an oar to save a drowning Arab chief, Regency era. While other Moors pray to Allah to save him. Royal Navy matelots use oars and pikes to bring a rowboat near a man-of-war. 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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7609 x 4364 px | 95.0 MB
Print size:
64.4 x 36.9 cm | 25.4 x 14.5 in (300 dpi)
Keywords:
1817 • ADVENTURE • ADVENTURES OF A TRUE BRITISH TAR • ALFRED THORNTON • ALLAH • AQUATINT • AQUATINT, ETCHING • ARAB CHIEF • BOOK ILLUSTRATION • BOOKPLATE • BRITISH • CARICATURE • CARICATURES • CARTOON • CHARLES WILLIAMS • CITY OF LONDON • COMICAL • COPPERPLATE • DROWNING • ENGLISH • ENGRAVED • ENGRAVING (ARTWORK) • ENGRAVING • ENGRAVING. • ENGRAVINGS • ETCHED ENGRAVING • ETCHING • FICTION • FLEET • FRIGATE • GEORGIAN • HANDCOLOURED • HULL • HUNDRED YEARS WAR • INGLES • ISLAM • ISLAMISM • J. JOHNSTON • JOHN MITFORD • LONDON • LONDON. • LORD NELSON • MAN-OF-WAR • MARINE • MATELOTS • MILITAR • MILITARS • MILITARY • MOOR • MOORS • MUSLIM • NAPOLEONIC WAR • NAPOLEONIC WARS • NAVAL HISTORY • NAVAL OFFICER • NAVY • NOVEL • OAR • OCEAN • ORIENTALISM • OVERBOARD • PEACE, NAPOLEONIC WARS • PICARESQUE • PIKE • POST CAPTAIN, THE • PRAYER • PRINT • RACISM • REGENCY • ROWBOAT • ROWLANDSON IMITATION • ROYAL NAVY • SAIL • SAILOR • SAVE • SEA • SEAMAN • SEAS • SHEIK • SHEIKH • SULTAN • TENDER • VELA • WAR • WARFARE • WARS
