A soldier with one arm debates with a sailor with a wooden leg the merits of the army and the navy. Reproduction of an etching by I. & G. Cruikshank, 1806.

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1806
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26286i
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Set outside an inn on the Thames at Greenwich, with the Royal Naval Hospital in the distance

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1806

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1 print : process print ; image 11.6 x 16.6 cm

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Dick Dock, or the lobster and crab. (the veterans.) I. & G. Cruikshank. 1806. ... Lettering continues with two stanzas of verse, "Dick Dock, or the lobster and crab" Lettering continues on the reverse of the sheet with a second poem accompanying the etching entitled "The lads of the ocean"

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Wellcome Collection 26286i

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