Hand-coloured, 'Published by J[ohn] Faiburn, Upper Holloway / Sold by A. Fairburn, Minories'. The threat from 'Barbary pirates' - more strictly the corsairs of the Islamic city states of the North African (i.e., Berber) coast - was largely eliminated by about 1820, especially following the Anglo-Dutch raid under Lord Exmouth that substantially destroyed the harbour area of Algiers, one of the main 'pirate' ports, in 1816. The uniforms shown in this print suggest it is a little later (possibly even into the early 1830s) and also reflecting the popularity of 'nautical melodrama' which lauded the varied exploits of the British sailor on the London stage from the 1820s on - the archetype (not involving pirates, though many such works did) being Douglas Jerrold's 'Black Eyed Susan' of 1829. Though not strictly a 'penny plain, tuppence coloured' toy theatre print, its graphic style is very similar. [PvdM 7/13]