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1 print : aquatint, with watercolour ; image 12.6 x 20.6 cm

St Luke's Hospital, Cripplegate, London: the facade from the east. Coloured aquatint after T. H. Shepherd, 1815.

Knotted ropes, used by the patients to pull themselves upright in bed, are visible in the print, as is the single gas burner used to illuminate the wards since 1847

1 print : wood engraving ; image and border 30 x 50.5 cm

Christmas benefit at University College Hospital, London. Wood engraving after G. Durand, 1874.

1 print : engraving ; image 9.1 x 14.5 cm

St Luke's Hospital, Cripplegate, London: the facade from the east. Engraving by R. Sands, 1815, after T. H. Shepherd.

The London Institution was founded in 1806. At first meetings were in a house, then a building was erected in Moorfields in 1819 at the behest of a number of charitable subscribers. As well as a fine library, the building housed a lecture room, used for scientific demonstrations. The Institution was demolished in 1936

1 print : engraving ; image 23.2 x 31.7 cm

The London Institution, Moorfields. Engraving by H. R. Cook after R. B. Schnebbelie, 1819.

The London Institution, Moorfields, London. Engraving.

Specification of Alexander Stewart : illuminating apparatus for dental and surgical operations.

A bill-poster, far left, is adding to the considerable amount of information on the side wall of Bedlam. Among many names written or scratched on the wall are those of Blucher, the Prussian general, ally of the Duke of Wellington; Kean, the actor; Johanna Southcott, the prophetess; Giardelli; and Young. There are three pictures of balloons, presumably advertising those which made ascents from Artillery Fields, the northern part of Moorfields

The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the south, with three people in the foreground. Etching by J. T. Smith after himself, 1814.

"A view in one of the two dining halls of Greenwich Hospital, probably in the 1850s, with the Pensioners seated before dinner in disciplined order. … it is probably the 'West Dining Hall' in the crypt under the Painted Hall, looking west toward the kitchens beyond the far wall, rather than the hall under the Chapel. These dining arrangements started, originally in this space alone, when Thornhill began decorating the Painted Hall above in 1707-08. This had only been used briefly as the Hospital dining room and was not so again - save on special occasions- until the Painted Hall became the officer's mess of the Royal Naval College in 1939. It is worth noting that gaslight appears to have been installed here along the ridge of the vaulting."-- online catalogue of the Royal Museums Greenwich, accessed April 2021

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 14.9 x 22.1 cm

The west dining hall, Greenwich, in the crypt below the Painted Hall, full of Pensioners eating dinner. Coloured lithograph by W. Bligh Barker after himself.

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St Luke's Hospital, Cripplegate, London: the facade from the east. Coloured aquatint after T. H. Shepherd, 1815.

Christmas benefit at University College Hospital, London. Wood engraving after G. Durand, 1874.

St Luke's Hospital, Cripplegate, London: the facade from the east. Engraving by R. Sands, 1815, after T. H. Shepherd.

The London Institution, Moorfields. Engraving by H. R. Cook after R. B. Schnebbelie, 1819.

The London Institution, Moorfields, London. Engraving.

Specification of Alexander Stewart : illuminating apparatus for dental and surgical operations.

The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the south, with three people in the foreground. Etching by J. T. Smith after himself, 1814.

The London Institution, Moorfields, London. Engraving.

The west dining hall, Greenwich, in the crypt below the Painted Hall, full of Pensioners eating dinner. Coloured lithograph by W. Bligh Barker after himself.

The London Institution, Moorfields, London. Engraving.

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St Luke's Hospital, Cripplegate, London: the facade from the east. Coloured aquatint after T. H. Shepherd, 1815.

Christmas benefit at University College Hospital, London. Wood engraving after G. Durand, 1874.

St Luke's Hospital, Cripplegate, London: the facade from the east. Engraving by R. Sands, 1815, after T. H. Shepherd.

The London Institution, Moorfields. Engraving by H. R. Cook after R. B. Schnebbelie, 1819.

The London Institution, Moorfields, London. Engraving.

Specification of Alexander Stewart : illuminating apparatus for dental and surgical operations.

The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the south, with three people in the foreground. Etching by J. T. Smith after himself, 1814.

The London Institution, Moorfields, London. Engraving.

The west dining hall, Greenwich, in the crypt below the Painted Hall, full of Pensioners eating dinner. Coloured lithograph by W. Bligh Barker after himself.

The London Institution, Moorfields, London. Engraving.

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