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  • The death of General Wolfe, at Quebec, in the background are soldiers and ships. Engraving by C. Guttenberg, after B. West, 1770.
  • The London Fever Hospital, Liverpool Road, Islington: a nurse and two female patients [?] one drying her hair in front of a fire. Watercolour painting by Nurse Flower, 1891.
  • Christ's Hospital, London: one of the boys standing beside a table, his hand on a book, buildings in the background. Stipple engraving by F. Vincent after J. Cristall.
  • Fashionable London comes to observe Sunday lunch at the Foundling Hospital. Wood engraving by J. Swain, 1872, after H.T. Green.
  • A fashionable mother wearing a dress with slits across the breasts in order to feed her baby before she dashes off to the carriage waiting outside. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1796.
  • A Greenwich Pensioner sits with a Chelsea Pensioner, telling stories of their campaigns: each is disabled in various ways. Coloured etching by Robert Dighton, 1801.
  • A Chelsea Pensioner, standing, wearing scarlet coat, and tricorn hat with a sprig of oak on it, leaning on a stick and carrying a cylindrical leather satchel, others in the background. Coloured etching by W.H. Pyne, 1805.
  • Barber-surgeons' Hall, Monkwell Street, London: the door of the hall, with a uniformed attendant standing to the left. Wood engraving attributed to J. and A. Williams, 1856.
  • The death of General Montgomery, at Quebec, all around are soldiers and native Americans. Coloured engraving by J. C. Armytage after J. Trumbull.
  • A grenadier and a woman having sexual intercourse outside a sentry box, she has laid her basket of groceries down in the street. Watercolour.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: 8.30 am, nurses arrive for work in the rain, then change into their uniforms. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • A British administrator and retired physician driving a carriage at high speed, accompanied by an Indian servant. Coloured lithograph by E. Walker after Captain G.F. Atkinson.
  • Nine men in a public bath; representing the Liberals' rejection of doubts about Home rule for Ireland. Chromolithograph by T. Merry, 1886.
  • Christ's Hospital, London: the exterior of the Hall. Engraving.
  • A soldier on stage using a sword to extract a tooth from a man. Wood engraving by F. Grenan, 1852.
  • People and carriages converging on Buckingham House - being met by a fire-breathing monster; representing the King's cancellation of the 'Drawing Room' because of contracting gout. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1823.
  • Everyday life at Greenwich Hospital: left, Pensioners filing into the entrance to the west Dining Hall, right, beating the tattoo at sunset. Wood engravings by M. Jackson, 1865.
  • William Doyle, Samuel Sone, and William Foster, walking on the North Bridge in Edinburgh, in uniform, each with a lady. Etching by J. Kay, 1784, after himself.
  • A travelling tooth-drawer holding a tooth up in the air to an audience after extracting it from a howling patient who is seated next to him in a carriage. Coloured lithograph by G. Gostiaux.
  • Two uniformed German army doctors standing in the grounds of the House of Oldenburg. Coloured lithograph, c. 1870.
  • A nurse checking on a playful child. Watercolour drawing by J.E. Sutcliffe, 1904.
  • Everyday life at Greenwich Hospital: Pensioners smoking in the "Chalk walk". Wood engraving by M. Jackson, 1865.
  • A beadle, carrying his staff: behind him two churchwardens lead a procession of orphans of the parish, the boys carrying wands to beat the bounds. Coloured aquatint by W. H. Pyne, 1805.
  • The death of General Wolfe, at Quebec, in the background are soldiers and the masts of ships. Engraving by W. Woollett, 1776, after B. West, the elder, 1770.
  • A Chelsea Pensioner, standing in a landscape: a building, flying the Union flag, behind him. Coloured aquatint, 1813.
  • Franco-Prussian War: a French army medical officer (1st class) in his uniform. Chromolithograph, c. 1870.
  • A nurse is cajoled by a director. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph, c. 1900.
  • A travelling tooth-drawer holding a tooth up in the air to an audience after extracting it from a howling patient who is seated next to him in a carriage. Coloured lithograph by G. Gostiaux.
  • A group of Greenwich Pensioners smoking and drinking. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1834.
  • A Chelsea Pensioner, standing, wearing red coat and tricorn hat, leaning on a stick and carrying a cylindrical leather satchel. Watercolour.