Chelsea pensioners [art original].

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Description

Title: Chelsea pensioners [art original].
Creator: Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, artist
Contributor: Clements C. Fry Collection of Medical Prints and Drawings (Yale Medical Library, Historical Library).
Published / Created: [before 1856]
Publication Place: England
Description: Title in ink below image.
Signed by the artist.
Below the title, written in ink, "Chelsea Hospital, the grand national asylum for decayed and maimed Soldiers, it was b[egun] by Charles II, carried on by James II, and completed by William III."
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Provenance: Bequest of Clements C. Fry,1955.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 19.2 x 29.1 cm
Language: English

Genre: Ink drawings
Watercolors
Material: watercolor & ink ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Royal Hospital (Chelsea, London, England),
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic): Prosthesis
Amputees
Disabled veterans
Hospitals
Medicine, Military
Veterans' hospitals
Crutches
Subjects: Royal Hospital (Chelsea, London, England)
Prosthesis
Amputees
Disabled veterans
Hospitals > Great Britain
Medicine, Military
Veterans' hospitals
Crutches

Access: Public
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Citation: Robert Cruikshank, Chelsea Pensioners. Yale Medical Library. Historical Library, Yale University. New Haven, CT.