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English: Illustration for the burlesque story "Swanka!" by Frederick Gale. Sailors held captive by Don Whiskerando Skittleballos have turned the tables on him in his bedchamber and prepare to flog him with a curtain cord, while the hero Tom Bluejacket (center rear, in a tasseled cap) and his love interest La Principessa Swanka a.k.a. Kitty Figgs look on laughing. Engraved by Joseph Swain from a drawing by Hablot Knight Browne.
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Source https://books.google.com/books?id=L69SAAAAcAAJ
Author Hablot Knight Browne (1815-1882); Joseph Swain (1820-1909)

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Illustration for the story "Swanka"

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