The way of the world [graphic]

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Title: The way of the world [graphic]
Creator: Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker, artist
Contributor: Lingham, S.
Kendrick, John, active 1830-1834, publisher.
Published / Created: April 26th, 1834.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by J. Kendrick, 54 Leicester Squr and Printed by S. Lingham, Bazzar, Grays Inn
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.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 38.5 x 30 cm.
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1834
Lithographs England London 1834
Material: lithograph ; and hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich.
Subject (Topic): Prosthesis
Sailors
British
Amputees
Artificial limbs
Peg legs
Disabled veterans
Crutches
Pipes (Smoking)
Subjects: Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich
Prosthesis
Sailors > British
Amputees
Artificial limbs
Peg legs
Disabled veterans
Crutches
Pipes (Smoking)
England > 1834
England > London > 1834

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