"Peter Simple's Foreign Adventure No.1. Oh vy vos I a Midshipman to be wrecked on this desolate island. I vish I vos at home at Bloomsbury! Oh that I had but to turn and embrace my kind, good, benevolent much respected Grandmother" caricature by Robert Seymour, published in Seymour's Humorous Sketches by Henry Bohn, 1878. First published as a lithograph in about 1836, this is a later steel engraved version. Size about 11.5 x 17 cms, plus margins. Ref F9529
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