- Creator:
- Phillips, John, active 1825-1831, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- Nov. 21, 1827.
- Call Number:
- 827.11.21.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "In a bare but neat ale-house room three Greenwich pensioners are in deep and heated discussion at a table before the fire. They point to fragments of pipe stem, arranged to show the position of ships in some engagement. Two sit, one stands; two have peg-legs. A fourth man (left) watches intently. The host (right) enters with frothing tankards."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Watermark: J. Whatman 1827.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by T. Gillard, 40, Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich.
- Subject (Topic):
- Amputees, Peg legs, Disabled veterans, Interiors, Sailors, British, Taverns (Inns), and Drinking vessels
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Nautical dispute [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [25 June 1791]
- Call Number:
- 791.06.25.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Broadside ballad by Charles Dibdin, with an etched headpiece showing the interior of a tavern with a one-legged pensioner holding a beer tankard decorated with an anchor (center), singing the song, while a maid holds a mug to another who has lost both arms (left). On the right two men play a game (draughts?) at a table. On the wall behind them is another broadside 'Poor Jack', also about a sailor with words by Dibdin. On the windows at the entrance of the tavern are postings advertising rum and gin. Several are dressed in the uniform of Greenwich pensioners
- Description:
- Title from letterpress caption title below image and above verses: " ... written and composed by Dibdin for his entertainment called The oddities.", Lettered with the artist's initials in the one-legged pensioner's hat and with his full name on the edge of the table on the right., Publisher's advertisement at the bottom of sheet: Just published, by Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly, where may be had, price 6d. plain and 1 s. coloured, The Patient Parson Forgetting His Text, or The Hogs in the Ale-Cellar, Poll and My Partner Joe, Bachelors' Hall, Let Us All Be Unhappy Together, The Barber's Wedding, Mrs. Thrale's Three Warnings, and many other esteemed songs and pieces, by Dibding and others. In Fores's exhibition may be seen the compleatest collection of caricature prints and drawings in Europe. Admittance one shilling., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and sides of illustration., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis.
- Publisher:
- Pub. June 25, 1791, by W. Fores, N. 3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich.
- Subject (Topic):
- Amputees, Crutches, Dance, Disabled veterans, Games, Interiors, Peg legs, Pipes (Smoking), Sailors, British, Manners & customs, and Taverns (Inns)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Greenwich pensioner [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs 9 Novr. 1790.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 C697 770
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "An illustration to the song 'By Mr. Dibdin' which is engraved beneath the title. The old pensioner with a wooden leg, a pipe in his left hand, a cudgel under his left arm, stands, directed to the left, pointing across the Thames at the river front of Greenwich Hospital, but looking towards the spectator. The stern of a ship with partly furled sails is visible on the left."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text below image and above verses., Probably after Robert Dighton; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1935,0522.1.35., Text below title: By Mr. Dibdin., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Verse in four columns below title: 'Twas in the good ship Rober, I sail'd the world around ... Altho I'm quite disabled And lie in Greenwich tier, The King, God bless his royalty, Who saved me from the main, I'll praise with love and loyalty, But ne'er to Sea again., Numbered "601" in lower left corner., No. 40 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Carrington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
- Subject (Name):
- Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich.
- Subject (Topic):
- Amputees, Peg legs, Disabled veterans, Pipes (Smoking), Sailors, British, and Ships
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Greenwich pensioner [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1848?]
- Call Number:
- 848.00.00.90
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An old pensioner in the Greenwich Hospital uniform sits on a chair as he smokes his pipe
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., and Three lines of verse below title: I'm a seaman and only three-score a d--d bad joke that this battered old hulk can't be fitted out for sea once more. Dibdin.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich.
- Subject (Topic):
- Sailors, British, Pipes (Smoking), and Veterans
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Greenwich pensioner [graphic].
- Creator:
- Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker, artist
- Published / Created:
- April 26th, 1834.
- Call Number:
- Print01027
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Two battered Greenwich Pensioners, one missing all four limbs, the other an arm and a leg, in conversation outside a building marked 'The Helpless Ward' of the Hospital Infirmary, with three other severely incapacitated veterans beside it. The inscription below the title reports the conversation: ' Ah! Messmate, you are a happy Fish to what I am. you have only got an Arm and a Leg lopp'd off. Whilst I hav'n't a Limb left about me but what's of Timber, with one Eye out and my Nose damaged.'- 'Go it Joe, grumble, grumble. You are like the rest of th' World. Never contented.'."--Royal Museums Greenwich online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from text below image.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by J. Kendrick, 54 Leicester Squr and Printed by S. Lingham, Bazzar, Grays Inn
- Subject (Name):
- Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich.
- Subject (Topic):
- Prosthesis, Sailors, British, Amputees, Artificial limbs, Peg legs, Disabled veterans, Crutches, and Pipes (Smoking)
- Found in:
- Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > The way of the world [graphic]