"An imaginary scene on the deck of the 'Vanguard'. The sailors are crowded round an improvised table, drinking and huzza-ing. Nelson and his officers sit abovet hem in the stern; a wounded officer is wrapped in a blanket. An officer takes a glass held up to him by a sailor. One man plays a fiddle. A Turk sits on the deck (left) smoking a long pipe ..."--British Museum online catalogue.
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Temporary local subject terms: Invasions: Ships decks -- Celebrations -- Sailors -- Turks -- Smoking: pipes -- Dishes: tankards -- Punch bowl -- Drinking glasses -- Musical instruments: fiddle -- Singing., Three stanzas of a song etched below title in three columns: Verse 1st. Dammy Jack, what a gig, what a true British whim, let the fiddles strike up on the Main. What seaman wou'd care for an eye or a limb to fight o'er the battle again., and Title etched below image.