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The Royal Hospital, Chelsea: viewed from the Surrey bank with boats on the river. Engraving by J. Storer after S. Prout, 1805.

Messenger Monsey. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1789.

The Royal Hospital, Chelsea: aerial view of the building and grounds, looking from the Surrey side of the river. Engraving, c.1761.

Four buildings in Chelsea: the Royal Hospital, St Luke's Church, the Old Church, and the Royal Military Asylum. Coloured lithographs.

A map of London: showing sites of medical interest in Chelsea and Kensington. Coloured lithograph, 1913.

The Royal Hospital, Chelsea: two views; one of the central portico of the north side; the other from the Surrey bank with boats on the river. Engraving by J. Shury after H. West, 1832.

The Royal Hospital, Chelsea: viewed from the Surrey bank with boats on the river. Engraving by W. Wallis after himself, 1816.

The Royal Hospital, Chelsea: viewed from the Surrey bank with boats on the river. Engraving by T. White.

The Royal Hospital, Chelsea: people attending the lying-in-state of the Duke of Wellington. Wood engraving, 1852.

The Royal Hospital, Chelsea: a lamp-post and a gate-post finial. Wood engraving by C.D. Laing, 1845.

Three Chelsea Pensioners, two playing cards. Wood engraving.

The Royal Hospital at Chelsea / by Lieut. Col. Newnham-Davis.

Royal Military Asylum, Chelsea. Engraving by A. Warren after R. B. Schnebbelie.

A group of Chelsea Pensioners disputing in the Hall at the Royal Hospital. Colour lithograph after E.R. White.

An advertisement to all charitable and well-dispos'd Christians : more particularly to the officers and gentlemen of the army: recommending to their charity the children of poor disabled soldiers, pensioners, and out-pensioners of the Royal-Hospital at Chelsea.

Report submitted to His Royal Highness the Commander in Chief, upon the subject of the out pensioners of Chelsea Hospital, that have been under treatment for diseases of the eyes : also, the reports made by the medical officers of Chelsea Hospital upon the cases of those patients.

The Royal Hospital, Chelsea : in subsidum et levamen, emeritorum senio, belloque fractorum.

A sketch of the life and character of the late Dr. Monsey, physician to the Royal Hospital at Chelsea; with anecdotes of persons of the first rank in church and state / [Anon].

Papers illustrative of the origin and early history of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea / Comp. in the Secretary's Office at that Institution.

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Royal Hospital (Chelsea, London, England)

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An advertisement to all charitable and well-dispos'd Christians : more particularly to the officers and gentlemen of the army: recommending to their charity the children of poor disabled soldiers, pensioners, and out-pensioners of the Royal-Hospital at Chelsea.

Report submitted to His Royal Highness the Commander in Chief, upon the subject of the out pensioners of Chelsea Hospital, that have been under treatment for diseases of the eyes : also, the reports made by the medical officers of Chelsea Hospital upon the cases of those patients.

The Royal Hospital, Chelsea : in subsidum et levamen, emeritorum senio, belloque fractorum.

A sketch of the life and character of the late Dr. Monsey, physician to the Royal Hospital at Chelsea; with anecdotes of persons of the first rank in church and state / [Anon].

Papers illustrative of the origin and early history of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea / Comp. in the Secretary's Office at that Institution.

Royal Hospital (Chelsea, London, England)

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An advertisement to all charitable and well-dispos'd Christians : more particularly to the officers and gentlemen of the army: recommending to their charity the children of poor disabled soldiers, pensioners, and out-pensioners of the Royal-Hospital at Chelsea.

Report submitted to His Royal Highness the Commander in Chief, upon the subject of the out pensioners of Chelsea Hospital, that have been under treatment for diseases of the eyes : also, the reports made by the medical officers of Chelsea Hospital upon the cases of those patients.

The Royal Hospital, Chelsea : in subsidum et levamen, emeritorum senio, belloque fractorum.

A sketch of the life and character of the late Dr. Monsey, physician to the Royal Hospital at Chelsea; with anecdotes of persons of the first rank in church and state / [Anon].

Papers illustrative of the origin and early history of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea / Comp. in the Secretary's Office at that Institution.

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