The Greenwich Pensioner
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The Greenwich Pensioner
Bears no: 262. This image was printed above the text of Charles Dibdin's song 'The Greenwich Pensioner' [?trimmed off this copy - to check]. Two Pensioners are seated at a table outside the door or what is by implication an alehouse just to the east of Greenwich Hospital, which appears in the background. One has a wooden prosthetic right leg and holds a full tankard. The other has a hook instead of a right hand and smokes a clay pipe, with an open twist of tobacco lying on the table. A third Pensioner with a stick approaches on the right under a large tree. All wear Hospital uniform of cocked hat, frock coats and breeches. The man on the left has a striped stocking on his left leg, his seated companion wears looser plain stockings. A woman in a mob cap (the maid or landlady) looks over a fence behind the table between them. The local setting is almost certainly imaginary, but this is also one of the earliest of several similar designs.
Laurie & Whittle
Original size: 300 mm x 265 mm
- Image reference: PY3324
- National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
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