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A limbless Greenwich Pensioner, smoking a pipe, someone else fitting an artificial leg for him. Wood engraving.
Reference: 32772i
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An old sailor with wooden leg and a man with no arms drinking in a tavern; below is a song about their seafaring days. Etching by I. Cruikshank, c. 1791.
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811Date: 25 June 1791Reference: 26889i
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Manual of artificial limbs : copiously illustrated : artificial toes, feet, legs, fingers, hands, arms : for amputations and deformities, appliances for excisions, fractures, and other disabilities of lower and upper extremities : suggestions on amputations, treatment of stumps, history, etc., etc., etc. : an exhaustive exposition of prosthesis.
Marks, George E. (George Edwin), 1853-1932.Date: 1907
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Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, a three-quarter view of the Hall. Engraving by J. Storer after F. Nash, 1803.
Nash, Frederick, 1782-1856.Date: 1814Reference: 28202i
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Greenwich Pensioners, by the colonnade, talking and smoking. Wood engraving by Calvert.
Reference: 32765i
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A treatise on Marks' patent artificial limbs with rubber hands and feet.
Marks, George E. (George Edwin), 1853-1932.Date: [1888], ©1888
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The victim of a railway accident approaching the railway board's directors for compensation for his extensive injuries. Watercolour by C.W.D., 1866.
D., C. W., active 1866.Date: 1866Reference: 12109i
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Everyday life at Greenwich Hospital: left, Pensioners in one of the wards, right, inside one of the "cabbins". Wood engravings by M. Jackson, 1865.
Date: 1865Reference: 32354i
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World War I: women manufacturing prosthetic limbs. Charcoal drawing with bodycolour by A. Garratt, 1916.
Garratt, A.Date: 1916Reference: 568360i
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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: 1786Reference: 33305i
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Veterans watching and participating in a game of bowls. Lithograph by A. Collette, 1853, after E. de Frenne.
Frenne, Emile de, 1814-1893.Date: 1853Reference: 20108i
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The making of a man : being a description of artificial limbs and how they may be adopted by those who have suffered loss of their natural limbs.
George R. Fuller Co. (Rochester, N.Y.)Date: [1902], ©1902
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Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, from Romney Road looking towards the Isle of Dogs, with a ship at the quayside, people in the foreground. Engraving (fragment) by T. Lawranson.
Reference: 28206i
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A Greenwich Pensioner, with a wooden leg, hitting a peddlar with his walking stick. Wood engraving.
Reference: 32767i
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The Royal Naval Hospital and the Queen's House, Greenwich, the Isle of Dogs beyond. Aquatint by J. Baily after J. T. Lee, 1811.
Lee, J. T., active 1811.Date: 31 August 1811Reference: 28192i
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Automatic mechanism : as applied in the construction of artificial limbs, in cases of amputation / by Frederick Gray. -- With upwards of one hundred illustrative cases and correspondence ; Dedicated to Sir Benjamin C. Brodie.
Gray, Frederick.Date: 1855
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The refurbishment (or building) of a Lock Hospital; men with various ailments are stepping out of Pandora's box; a rich, smiling, doctor drives by in a carriage. Coloured etching by T. Williamson, 1802.
Williamson, Thomas, active approximately 1801 - approximately 1825.Date: 1 July 1802Reference: 35154i
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Manual of artificial limbs : copiously illustrated : artificial toes, feet, legs, fingers, hands, arms : for amputations and deformities, appliances for excisions, fractures, and other disabilities of lower and upper extremities : suggestions on amputations, treatment of stumps, history, etc., etc., etc. : an exhaustive exposition of prosthesis.
Marks, George E. (George Edwin), 1853-1932.Date: 1912
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A Greenwich Pensioner with a wooden leg, standing in a landscape, the domes of Greenwich Hospital behind. Coloured aquatint, 1813.
Date: January 1813Reference: 31463i
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A group of Greenwich Pensioners smoking and drinking. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1834.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1834Reference: 31772i
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A Greenwich Pensioner sits at table, eating soup, attended [?] by three others: all are disabled in various ways. Lithograph.
Reference: 31326i

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A limbless Greenwich Pensioner, smoking a pipe, someone else fitting an artificial leg for him. Wood engraving.

An old sailor with wooden leg and a man with no arms drinking in a tavern; below is a song about their seafaring days. Etching by I. Cruikshank, c. 1791.

Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, a three-quarter view of the Hall. Engraving by J. Storer after F. Nash, 1803.

Greenwich Pensioners, by the colonnade, talking and smoking. Wood engraving by Calvert.

A treatise on Marks' patent artificial limbs with rubber hands and feet.

The victim of a railway accident approaching the railway board's directors for compensation for his extensive injuries. Watercolour by C.W.D., 1866.

Everyday life at Greenwich Hospital: left, Pensioners in one of the wards, right, inside one of the "cabbins". Wood engravings by M. Jackson, 1865.

World War I: women manufacturing prosthetic limbs. Charcoal drawing with bodycolour by A. Garratt, 1916.

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.

Veterans watching and participating in a game of bowls. Lithograph by A. Collette, 1853, after E. de Frenne.

The making of a man : being a description of artificial limbs and how they may be adopted by those who have suffered loss of their natural limbs.

Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, from Romney Road looking towards the Isle of Dogs, with a ship at the quayside, people in the foreground. Engraving (fragment) by T. Lawranson.

A Greenwich Pensioner, with a wooden leg, hitting a peddlar with his walking stick. Wood engraving.

The Royal Naval Hospital and the Queen's House, Greenwich, the Isle of Dogs beyond. Aquatint by J. Baily after J. T. Lee, 1811.

Automatic mechanism : as applied in the construction of artificial limbs, in cases of amputation / by Frederick Gray. -- With upwards of one hundred illustrative cases and correspondence ; Dedicated to Sir Benjamin C. Brodie.

The refurbishment (or building) of a Lock Hospital; men with various ailments are stepping out of Pandora's box; a rich, smiling, doctor drives by in a carriage. Coloured etching by T. Williamson, 1802.

A Greenwich Pensioner with a wooden leg, standing in a landscape, the domes of Greenwich Hospital behind. Coloured aquatint, 1813.

A group of Greenwich Pensioners smoking and drinking. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1834.

A Greenwich Pensioner sits at table, eating soup, attended [?] by three others: all are disabled in various ways. Lithograph.