Dinner. Fetching lee-way, or, One of the comforts of a Channel cruize in November [graphic]
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Lewis Walpole Library > Dinner. Fetching lee-way, or, One of the comforts of a Channel cruize in November [graphic]
"Four young naval officers, two being mere boys and apparently midshipmen (though the scene is unlike the cramped squalor of the midshipmen's berth), dine at a tilting table, from which decanters, a capon, &c., have fallen to the ground. A cabin-boy struggles up the slanting desk with a ham. One of the very flimsy chairs is overturned. A gun projecting through a port-hole is marked 'Clyde'."--British Museum online catalogue