"Interior view of the dining hall in the hospital; fresco covering end wall; men in red coats and black hats sit at long tables in hall."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 3, opposite page 252., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 98., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Chelsea Hospital -- Chelsea pensioners.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1st, 1810, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England) and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Royal Hospital (Chelsea, London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Hospitals, Veterans' hospitals, Dinners and dining, Interiors, Murals, Dining rooms, Dining tables, Eatings & drinking, Disabled veterans, Amputees, and Peg legs
"Interior view of the dining hall in the hospital; fresco covering end wall; men in red coats and black hats sit at long tables in hall."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 3, opposite page 252., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 98., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Chelsea Hospital -- Chelsea pensioners., and 1 print : aquatint and etching ; plate mark 23.5 x 27.7 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1st, 1810, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England) and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Royal Hospital (Chelsea, London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Hospitals, Veterans' hospitals, Dinners and dining, Interiors, Murals, Dining rooms, Dining tables, Eatings & drinking, Disabled veterans, Amputees, and Peg legs
"Two jovial old pensioners sit together on a bench, smoking and gesticulating. The sailor (left) holds a frothing tankard, and raises his pipe above his head; his wooden leg extends stiffly. The soldier turns his head in profile to the left, gesticulating with his right hand; he has lost his left arm. Both are neatly dressed."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Descriptions of battles by sea and land
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Medical: wooden leg -- Greenwich Hospital pensioner -- Chelsea Hospital pensioner -- Pensioners., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Prostheses -- Greenwich Hospitals -- Chelsea Hospital., and Provenance identification in contemporary hand near bottom of print.
Publisher:
Robert Dighton
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich. and Royal Hospital (Chelsea, London, England)
"Two jovial old pensioners sit together on a bench, smoking and gesticulating. The sailor (left) holds a frothing tankard, and raises his pipe above his head; his wooden leg extends stiffly. The soldier turns his head in profile to the left, gesticulating with his right hand; he has lost his left arm. Both are neatly dressed."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Descriptions of battles by sea and land
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Medical: wooden leg -- Greenwich Hospital pensioner -- Chelsea Hospital pensioner -- Pensioners., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Prostheses -- Greenwich Hospitals -- Chelsea Hospital., Leaf 63 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., and 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 22.1 x 17.3 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm.
Publisher:
Robert Dighton
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich. and Royal Hospital (Chelsea, London, England)
"Two jovial old pensioners sit together on a bench, smoking and gesticulating. The sailor (left) holds a frothing tankard, and raises his pipe above his head; his wooden leg extends stiffly. The soldier turns his head in profile to the left, gesticulating with his right hand; he has lost his left arm. Both are neatly dressed."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Descriptions of battles by sea and land
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local subject terms: Medical: wooden leg -- Greenwich Hospital pensioner -- Chelsea Hospital pensioner -- Pensioners., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Prostheses -- Greenwich Hospitals -- Chelsea Hospital., and 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 223 x 172 mm.
Publisher:
Robert Dighton
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich. and Royal Hospital (Chelsea, London, England)
"Interior view of the hall, in Greenwich Hospital, later the Old Royal Naval College; two groups of figures admiring the painted walls and the grand victory cart."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 3, opposite page 246., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 97., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Funeral carriages -- Prostheses -- Greenwich Hospital -- Lord Nelson's funeral carriage.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 1, 1810, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England) and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, and Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758-1805.
"Interior view of the hall, in Greenwich Hospital, later the Old Royal Naval College; two groups of figures admiring the painted walls and the grand victory cart."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 3, opposite page 246., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 97., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Funeral carriages -- Prostheses -- Greenwich Hospital -- Lord Nelson's funeral carriage., and 1 print : aquatint and etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 23.8 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 1, 1810, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England) and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, and Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758-1805.
Title from item., Above image: Puck., Published in Puck, 28 August 1881., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Politics, U.S.A.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
United States
Subject (Name):
Brown-Séquard, Charles-Edouard, 1817-1894. and Tanner, James, 1844-1927
Subject (Topic):
Pensions, Disabled veterans, Quacks and quackery, Polilticians, Disabled persons, Healing, Money, Peg legs, Crutches, and Politics and government
A furious veteran with a wooden leg and bandaged eye and a maid servant attack Sir Cecil Wray with a crutch and a broom, respectively. The maid stands on a piece of paper inscribed,"Tax on servants" and in front of a padlocked door to the "Register Off[ice] for Maid Serv[ants]." On the opposite side of the image, in the background, is the crumbling building of the Chelsea Hospital. A reference to Sir Cecil's proposals to tax the employers of maid servants and to close the Chelsea Hospital that housed disabled veterans
Alternative Title:
Sir Cecil chastised
Description:
Title from item. and Mounted to 28 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
Published April 2nd, 1784, by Willm Wells, No. 132 Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and Westminster
Subject (Name):
Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805. and Royal Hospital (Chelsea, London, England).
Subject (Topic):
Great Britain, Politics and government, Political elections, Disabled veterans, Servants, Peg legs, Crutches, Brooms & brushes, and Politicians
"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.
