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Each of the other watercolours in this series has a moral theme, and is comparable to a literary illustration. <i>Patriotism</i> is exceptional; it was the last in the series, and the composition seems to have been influenced by C.R. Leslie's painting <i>Uncle Toby and the Widow Wadman</i> (an illustration to Laurence Sterne's book <i>Tristam Shandy</i>). The veterans in Dadd's drawing are clearly meant to be 18th century rather than contemporary. They are studying a map (which has been densely inscribed) of an imaginary place which Dadd has named Olabolika. The places on the map are named after human qualities, or are bleakly amusing: for example, he includes a 'Lunatic Asylum called Lostwithal'. 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