Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with many people walking beside the river, and much shipping on it. Engraving by J. Collins.
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This plate was issued without authority of the Hospital Governors, who disavowed it in 1708. It shows Wren's design of 1699, presented to the King in 1700
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[London]
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1 print : engraving ; image 43.7 x 66.2 cm
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The Royal Hospital of Greenwich. ; Reverendo viro Philippo Stubbs, in artibus magistro; Societatis Regiae, et de promovendo in partibus transmarinis, evangelio, sodali; Collegii de Sion apud Londinium, ac non ita ... pridem Wadhami apud Oxonienses socio.
Lettering continues: Hospituque, quod est Granovici, pro sublevandis nautis emeritis, Capellano Regio.
Bears number: "LIV"
References note
B. Adams, London illustrated, London, 1983, number 22/47 [p.43]
A. T. Bolton and H. D. Hendry, The sixth volume of the Wren Society: The Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich 1694-1728, Oxford, 1929, plate XLV and pp 101-102
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Wellcome Collection 26907i
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