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1. The flowing bowl, or sailors returned.
*The flowing bowl, or sailors returned. Four sailors are sitting around a table in a cottage to rest and refresh after a long journey. Their bags are still unpacked and the sails of their...
2. The Battle of the Nile: Greenwich pensioners disputing the line of battle.
*The Battle of the Nile: Greenwich pensioners disputing the line of battle. The scene is outside a rustic riverside tavern, with a barn to the right, a working man carring a basket on his back along the shore, a ship laid up...
3. 'Poll of Horselydown' sung by Mr Grimaldi, at Sadlers Wells (caricature).
*'Poll of Horselydown' sung by Mr Grimaldi, at Sadlers Wells (caricature). 'Poll of Horselydown', a song from 1807 portraying the dangers that could await seamen in the port. It tells the story of a Captain Oakum, robbed...
4. The Greenwich Pensioner.
*The Greenwich Pensioner. A pensioner with one leg sits by the statue of George II in the Grand Square of the Hospital. Pensioners were admitted to Greenwich Hospital from...
5. The Salutation Tavern, Greenwich 1756 (caricature).
*The Salutation Tavern, Greenwich 1756 (caricature). The view shows fishwives and oysterwomen landing the catch from boats at the inn's river steps, with others boats beyond along the waterfront. A...
6. To Count Edmund Batthyany... Royal Albert Yacht Club, this Print of his Schooner Yacht Flying Cloud in the... Match of the Royal Thames Yacht Club, June 8th 1870... dedicated by Josiah Taylor
*To Count Edmund Batthyany... Royal Albert Yacht Club, this Print of his Schooner Yacht Flying Cloud in the... Match of the Royal Thames Yacht Club, June 8th 1870... dedicated by Josiah Taylor This American yacht 'Flying Cloud' is a schooner because she has two masts. Before their recreational use, schooners were used in the coasting trade...
7. The window into the port
*The window into the port
8. Greenwich Pensioner.
*Greenwich Pensioner. A Greenwich Pensioner is enjoying a beer. Pensioners originally wore a uniform of dark grey with a blue lining and brass buttons. Later, the colour...
9. Greenwich Hospital.
*Greenwich Hospital. This engraving, based on an 1840 painting by Clarkson Stanfield, shows 'Poor Jack' (Tom Saunders), his Greenwich Pensioner father and his sister,...
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The front cover to the sheet music for the Sultan of Mocha Quadrille by Henry Watson.

*The front cover to the sheet music for the Sultan of Mocha Quadrille by Henry Watson. The front cover to the sheet music for the 'Sultan of Mocha Quadrille' by Henry Watson, dedicated to G.H.Browne Esq. The quadrille appears to be the...
 
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