"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)
"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 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)
Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., 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: Hospitals, Great Britain; Greenwich Hospital.
Title and date from item., Sheet trimmed., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Published 1828, by R. Ackermann, 96 Strand, London
"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.
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.
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.
"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
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
