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  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships and rowing boats, including the Royal Barge [?], in the foreground. Engraving.

    Reference
    34056i
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  • Royal Naval Hospital Greenwich, on the left, viewed from afar with many ships in the foreground, on the right the Royal Dockyard on the Isle of Dogs. Engraving.

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    34484i
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  • Greenwich Hospital viewed obliquely from the river, with boats in the foreground. Lithograph by [E.P.], 1833.

    Date
    1833
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    34452i
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  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships and rowing boats, including the paddle steamer "Diamond" heading downriver, in the foreground. Engraving by J. Watkins, 1843.

    Date
    January 1843
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    34065i
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  • Sailing ships at sea, turnip-like plants found in northern Russia and the Samoyed people with their tents and boats, in separate plates. Engraving after C. de Bruin, 1701.

    • Bruyn, Cornelis de, 1652-1727
    Date
    [1718]
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    20216i
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  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, part of the King Charles block, with a scale. Engraving by H. Hulsburgh after C. Campbell, 1715.

    • Campbell, Colen, 1676-1729
    Date
    1715
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    28205i
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  • A soldier with one arm debates with a sailor with a wooden leg the merits of the army and the navy. Reproduction of an etching by I. & G. Cruikshank, 1806.

    Date
    1806
    Reference
    26286i
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  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, from the Isle of Dogs, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground, viewed from a distance up river. Engraving by C. Heath, 1825, after P. de Wint.

    • DeWint, Peter, 1784-1849
    Date
    1825
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    27667i
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  • Greenwich Hospital viewed from a distance across the river, an anchor in the foreground. Engraving.

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    33857i
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  • Royal Naval Hospital Greenwich, viewed from afar with many ships in the foreground. Coloured aquatint by W. H. Timms after himself, 1821.

    • Timms, W. H.
    Date
    1 February 1821
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    27665i
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