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Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, a distant three-quarter view of the Hall and Chapel, looking east, the Infirmary in the foreground left. Coloured drawing by C. White, 1786.

King's College, London: the interior of the theatre on prizegiving day. Engraving by H. Melville after T. H. Shepherd, ca. 1841.

The London Institution: the interior of the library. Drawing by H. Ansted, 1824.

St Bartholomew the Less, Smithfield, London: the interior with a lady and her daughter near the altar, a man half-hidden behind the pews to the left. Engraving.

Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich: the interior of the King Charles Ward, with some "cabbins" and several pensioners. Wood engraving.

The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the south, with three people in the foreground. Etching by J. T. Smith after himself, 1814.

Four men and a woman in the audience of a theatre, seated in the front box above the orchestra. Lithograph after Grenier.

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Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich: the interior of the King Charles Ward, with some "cabbins" and several pensioners. Wood engraving.

St Bartholomew the Less, Smithfield, London: the interior with a lady and her daughter near the altar, a man half-hidden behind the pews to the left. Engraving.

King's College, London: the interior of the theatre on prizegiving day. Engraving by H. Melville after T. H. Shepherd, ca. 1841.

The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the south, with three people in the foreground. Etching by J. T. Smith after himself, 1814.

Four men and a woman in the audience of a theatre, seated in the front box above the orchestra. Lithograph after Grenier.