A midwife holds out a newborn child, who exhibits a combination its parents' physical traits: the nose of its mother, who lies in bed, and the hook arm, peg leg, glasses and queue of its father, who stands proudly at the foot of the bed. The midwife e...
"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.
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, gesticula...
Alternative Title:
Descriptions of battles by sea and land
Description:
Title etched below image.
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.
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.