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.

  • Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814.
Date:
March 1801
Reference:
31329i
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[London] (12 Charing Cross) : [Robert Dighton], March 1801.

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1 print : etching, with watercolour ; image 17.5 x 16.7 cm

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Descriptions of battles by sea & land, ; in two volumes, ; from the Kings Library's at Greenwich & Chelsea ; Drawn, etch'd & pub. by Dighton

References note

Dennis Rose, Life, times, and recorded works of Robert Dighton (1752-1814): actor, artist, and printseller and three of his artist sons portrayers of Georgian pageantry and wit, [S.l.]: D. Rose, 1981, p. 37
David Padfield, A view of Dightons: the Dighton family, their times, caricatures and portraits, London 2007, p. 87

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Wellcome Collection 31329i

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