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  • Fangguangyan monastery, Fujian province, China: three monks at the meal table. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870-18711.
  • Fangguangyan monastery, Fujian province, China: three monks at the meal table. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870-18711.
  • A group of Chelsea Pensioners disputing in the Hall at the Royal Hospital. Colour lithograph after E.R. White.
  • An old couple lie in their sick bed receiving alms from a girl with the encouragement of her mother and a nun. Pen and ink drawing after J.B. Greuze.
  • An old man in ragged clothes and a feathery fur cap playing the hurdy gurdy. Etching by Jan Georg van der Vliet, c. 1632.
  • Saint Lucy with her blind mother Eutychia. Ink drawing by Tommaso Minardi.
  • An old couple lie in their sick bed receiving alms from a girl with the encouragement of her mother and a nun. Line engraving by Th.-F. Vi-., 1781, after J.B. Greuze.
  • An old man with a wooden leg and a stick is accompanied by a girl carrying a bowl in her right hand. Etching by Jules Jacques Veyrassat.
  • An old man diagnosed as suffering from senile dementia. Colour lithograph, 1896, after J. Williamson, ca. 1890.
  • Chelsea Pensioners in a procession in Trafalgar Square, heading towards the Strand, to the left the base of the Nelson Column, fenced-off. Wood engraving.
  • An old beggar with a wooden leg moves with the aid of two crutches and holds his hat in his left hand. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • Two Chelsea Pensioners arm-in-arm, one, with a wooden leg, leaning on a crutch and holding out his hat begging for alms [?], the other exhibiting his head wound [?]. Colour lithograph.
  • A one-legged hurdy gurdy player dressed in rags with his companion, an old woman dressed in rags reading from a song sheet. Engraving with etching by J. Matham after Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne.
  • Two Chelsea Pensioners in a garden in winter. Colour lithograph by [F.F.].
  • Bathsheba brings the young maid Abishag to the aging King David for body heat. Mezzotint by R. Earlom, 1779, after G. Farington after A. van der Werff, 1696.
  • A Greenwich Pensioner, seated, wearing red coat and tricorn hat, reading 'The Naval & Military gazette' No. 229. Engraving by W. O. Geller after H. P. ["Smuggler"] Parker, 1837.
  • A street scene with building work going on: an old man holds his cap out to a well-dressed man who refuses to help him. Lithograph by Joseph Louis Hippolyte Bellangé.
  • The Metropolitan Benefit Societies' Asylum, Dalston, London. Wood engraving, c. 1850.
  • A Chelsea Pensioner, wearing a sprig of orange blossom [?] in his buttonhole, sipping a dish of tea. Engraving by J. Jenkins after M. W. Sharp.
  • Several Chelsea Pensioners gathered around, one of whom is reading from a copy of Shurey's illustrated paper. Colour lithograph after S. Lewin.
  • A doctor meets an old Scottish convalescent who bemoans the cost of health care. Wood engraving, 1914.
  • Three Chelsea Pensioners, two playing cards. Wood engraving.
  • The Metropolitan Benefit Societies' Asylum, Dalston, London. Pen drawing.
  • The Metropolitan Benefit Societies' Asylum, Dalston, London. Coloured lithograph by Francis and Jackson.
  • A Chelsea Pensioner standing in the hall at the Royal Hospital, leaning on his stick. Watercolour painting.
  • The angel Raphael curing the blindness of Tobit. Oil painting by Hendrick Martensz. Sorgh, 16--.
  • The angel Raphael curing the blindness of Tobit. Oil painting by Hendrick Martensz. Sorgh, 16--.
  • Licensed Victuallers' Asylum, Peckham. Engraving by H. Wallis, 1830, after T.M. Baynes.
  • 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.
  • A Chelsea Pensioner, standing, wearing red coat and tricorn hat, leaning on a stick and carrying a cylindrical leather satchel. Watercolour.