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1 print : engraving ; image 16.4 x 26.9 cm

The stairs at York buildings in the Strand; in the background are the tower of the water works and Westminster Bridge. Engraving, c.1779.

1 print : engraving, with watercolour ; image 15.3 x 26.8 cm

Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground. Coloured engraving after T. Bowles, 1753.

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 reduced version of Wellcome Library catalogue no. 38742i

1 print : mezzotint ; image 13.8 x 11.3 cm

Bagnigge Wells, London: a family group, the Dumplings, on a day out. Mezzotint.

The people depicted in this print include a lady of fashion and her retinue, one of whom is black

1 print : engraving, with watercolour ; image and border 23.6 x 40.2 cm

St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: the courtyard, with several people. Coloured engraving, 1752.

One of the streets destroyed in the replanning of Greenwich in 1829-1843 by Joseph Kay. "This records what was more usually called Fisher Lane, which approached the north-west side of the King Charles Court of Greenwich Hospital behind waterfront buildings on the present site of Greenwich Pier, until the whole area was cleared in the 1840s. The sign of the old Ship Tavern can be seen at the far end of the lane. Stanfield originally drew the scene almost identically as an illustration to Captain Marryat's novel 'Poor Jack' (1840) facing p.16, where it was described thus (pp.16-17): 'Fisher's Alley is a very narrow street and what is said in a room on one side can be heard on the other ... there were drunken men and drunken women and occasionally scolding and fighting. My mother ... had taken the lease of a house ... and every day I heard her saying at the door, "Walk in gentlemen; I've a nice clean room and boiling hot water" - for the seamen used to come in to take tea, drink and smoke - and so did the old [Greenwich] pensioners occasionally.' This version, like the original, shows the tea-house, left, with a pensioner outside, and an oyster dealer on the other side of the alley. It is, however, a souvenir re-drawing, which Stanfield did following demolition of the street by Greenwich Hospital and which he presented to the Hospital Board in September 1848, four years after he was appointed Honorary Curator of the Naval Gallery in the Painted Hall."—online catalogue of the Royal Museums Greenwich, accessed April 2021. The figure described as an oyster-dealer is a woman carrying a bucket on the right of the picture

1 print : wood engraving ; image 13.7 x 11.7 cm

Fisher's Alley (Fisher Lane), near the Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with many Pensioners and other people walking. Wood engraving by R. Branston after C. Stanfield.

The celebrated boy and swan fountain can be seen in the background, as can the domed roof of the temple

Bagnigge Wells, London: two alluring, fashionably-dressed women, one plucking rosebuds. Mezzotint, 1780.

London, seen from Greenwich. Engraving, 1773.

1 print : engraving ; image 8.9 x 15.2 cm

St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: the courtyard, with two figures on the right. Engraving by A. Smith.

Macaronies, characters, caricatures

1 print : etching ; platemark 17.6 x 12.5 cm.

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The stairs at York buildings in the Strand; in the background are the tower of the water works and Westminster Bridge. Engraving, c.1779.

Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground. Coloured engraving after T. Bowles, 1753.

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.

Bagnigge Wells, London: a family group, the Dumplings, on a day out. Mezzotint.

St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: the courtyard, with several people. Coloured engraving, 1752.

Fisher's Alley (Fisher Lane), near the Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with many Pensioners and other people walking. Wood engraving by R. Branston after C. Stanfield.

Bagnigge Wells, London: two alluring, fashionably-dressed women, one plucking rosebuds. Mezzotint, 1780.

London, seen from Greenwich. Engraving, 1773.

St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: the courtyard, with two figures on the right. Engraving by A. Smith.

A foppish fumigator holding a print of a birthing chair (?). Etching, 1772.

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The stairs at York buildings in the Strand; in the background are the tower of the water works and Westminster Bridge. Engraving, c.1779.

Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground. Coloured engraving after T. Bowles, 1753.

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.

Bagnigge Wells, London: a family group, the Dumplings, on a day out. Mezzotint.

St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: the courtyard, with several people. Coloured engraving, 1752.

Fisher's Alley (Fisher Lane), near the Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with many Pensioners and other people walking. Wood engraving by R. Branston after C. Stanfield.

Bagnigge Wells, London: two alluring, fashionably-dressed women, one plucking rosebuds. Mezzotint, 1780.

London, seen from Greenwich. Engraving, 1773.

St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: the courtyard, with two figures on the right. Engraving by A. Smith.

A foppish fumigator holding a print of a birthing chair (?). Etching, 1772.

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