(NAVAL FOLK ART) Williams Edward Original pen and ink drawin

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(NAVAL FOLK ART.) Williams, Edward. Original pen and ink drawing celebrating English navy. Pen and ink drawing by Edward Williams, signed at foot '1839. Edward Williams. 1839.' 11x9 inches sheet size; expertly repaired 2-inch tear in lower right corner. [England], 1839

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The drawing is in two parts: the upper section shows a half length semi-caricature portrait in profile of an English Royal Navy seaman with arms crossed holding a 'grog' cup, within an oval border bearing the names of English victories at sea 'St. Vincent La Hogue Camperdown Copenhagen Trafalgar Nile &c. &c.'. The border is supported by the just visible end of a cannon to the left and an anchor to the right. The second half of the drawing is a shaped rectangle of black with an outlined eight-line poem: "Oh! There's a Land, of ev'ry Land the pride, / Belov'd of Heav'n o'er all the World beside. / There is a Spot of Earth supremely blest, / A Dearer, Sweeter spot, than all the rest. / Where shall that land, that Spot of Earth be found? / Art Thou a Man/ A Patriot? Look around, / Oh, Thou shalt find, howe'er thy footsteps roam. / That Land, thy Country - And that Spot, thy Home."