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Table-talk

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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.
  • A Greenwich Pensioner sits with a Chelsea Pensioner, telling stories of their campaigns: each is disabled in various ways. Coloured etching by Robert Dighton, 1801.
  • Greenwich Pensioners, by the colonnade, talking and smoking. Wood engraving by Calvert.
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    Extracts from various authors, and fragments of table-talk, afternoons at L*********.

    Hussey E. L. (Edward Law), 1816-1899. | Date: 1891
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    A Greenwich Pensioner sits with a Chelsea Pensioner, telling stories of their campaigns: each is disabled in various ways. Coloured etching by Robert Dighton, 1801.

    Dighton, Robert, 1752-1814. | Date: March 1801 | Reference: 31329i
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    An essay towards a collection of books relating to proverbs, emblems, apophthegms, epitaphs and ana : being a catalogue of those at Keir / [Sir William Stirling-Maxwell].

    Stirling Maxwell, William, 1818-1878. | Date: 1860
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    Greenwich Pensioners, by the colonnade, talking and smoking. Wood engraving by Calvert.

    | Reference: 32765i
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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.

    White, Charles, active 1786. | Date: 1786 | Reference: 33305i
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