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A Chelsea Pensioner, standing, wearing red coat and tricorn hat, leaning on a stick and carrying a cylindrical leather satchel. Watercolour.
Reference: 20765i
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Greenwich Hill, with many visitors, London in the distance. Engraving by T. A. Prior.
Prior, Thomas Abiel, 1809-1886.Date: 1826Reference: 26501i
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A limbless Greenwich Pensioner, smoking a pipe, someone else fitting an artificial leg for him. Wood engraving.
Reference: 32772i
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Two Chelsea Pensioners in a garden in winter. Colour lithograph by [F.F.].
Reference: 20768i
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Three Chelsea Pensioners, two playing cards. Wood engraving.
Sly, Benjamin, active 1841-1883.Date: 1855Reference: 20760i
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London, seen from beside Flamsteed House in Greenwich park. Lithograph by T. S. Boys after himself, 1842.
Boys, Thomas Shotter, 1803-1874.Date: 1842Reference: 34476i
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Queen Elizabeth I making her way to the Royal Barge moored at the quay, many courtiers, musicians, etc. either side. Engraving by H. C. Shenton after H. Melville.
Melville, Harden Sidney, active 1837-1882.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 29821i
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A Greenwich Pensioner, dressed as a retired Commodore. Mixed-method print by F. C. Lewis, 1826, after D. Wilkie, 1823.
Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785-1841.Date: January 1826Reference: 31466i
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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.
Sharp, Michael William, -1840.Date: 1840Reference: 20762i
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Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with many people walking beside the river, and much shipping on it. Engraving by J. Collins.
Reference: 26907i
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A Greenwich Pensioner reading from a book to a small boy, both sitting on the balustrade at the Royal Naval Hospital. Wood engraving.
Reference: 33302i
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Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, a three-quarter view of the Hall. Engraving by J. Storer after F. Nash, 1803.
Nash, Frederick, 1782-1856.Date: 1814Reference: 28202i
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Greenwich Pensioners, by the colonnade, talking and smoking. Wood engraving by Calvert.
Reference: 32765i
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A Greenwich Pensioner, in Greenwich Park, talking to two boys about naval battles. Wood engraving after J. Leech.
Leech, John, 1817-1864.Reference: 32769i
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A young lady looking through a telescope belonging to a Greenwich Pensioner, who smiles as a young man obscures the view with his hat. Wood engraving.
Reference: 32774i
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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.
Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769-1843.Date: 1 January 1805Reference: 31388i
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Everyday life at Greenwich Hospital: left, Pensioners in one of the wards, right, inside one of the "cabbins". Wood engravings by M. Jackson, 1865.
Date: 1865Reference: 32354i
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Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, a distant three-quarter view of the Hall and Chapel, looking east, the Infirmary in the foreground left. Coloured drawing by C. White, 1786.
White, Charles, active 1786.Date: 1786Reference: 33305i
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A veteran French soldier or sailor. Photogravure by Goupil & Cie., 1873, after M. Fortuny y Marsal, 1869.
Fortuny, Mariano, 1838-1874.Date: Le 1er 8bre [1 October] 1873Reference: 24926i
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Chelsea Pensioners, one of whom has just died in his pew, in the Chapel at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea. Process print by Boussod Valadon after H. von Herkomer, 1875.
Herkomer, Hubert von, Sir, 1849-1914.Date: 1876Reference: 20767i
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The Royal Hospital, Chelsea: aerial view of the building and grounds, looking from the Surrey side of the river. Engraving, c.1761.
Date: 1761Reference: 20252i
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Four buildings in Chelsea: the Royal Hospital, St Luke's Church, the Old Church, and the Royal Military Asylum. Coloured lithographs.
Guillod, T., active 1840.Date: 1840Reference: 20210i
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A Greenwich Pensioner, with a wooden leg, hitting a peddlar with his walking stick. Wood engraving.
Reference: 32767i
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A Greenwich Pensioner, sitting with his pipe and walking stick. Wood engraving.
Reference: 32361i
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The Royal Naval Hospital and the Queen's House, Greenwich, the Isle of Dogs beyond. Aquatint by J. Baily after J. T. Lee, 1811.
Lee, J. T., active 1811.Date: 31 August 1811Reference: 28192i