(Updated February 2016) One of Stanfield's original drawings for Captain Marryat's novel 'Poor Jack' (1840), showing Tom Saunders (alias 'Poor Jack') helping Freeman the fisherman pull in his nets and moor his peter boat near the landing place to the east of Greenwich Hospital, at the end of what is now Park Row. The view is westward across the riverfront of the Hospital in a view very similar to George Chambers' oil painting of 1835 (NMM BHC1823), though taken a little further inshore. On the left is the old George Tavern, replaced in 1837 by the present Trafalgar Tavern. The demolished eastern waterfront pavilion of the Hospital is on the old crane wharf beyond the landing place, by the east corner of the Queen Anne Court of the Hospital. In the distance the Hospital Governor's flag flies above his quarters in the north pavilion of the King Charles Court.

A group of vessels including a stumpie Thames barge laden with hay, in stern view, is in the river on the right, with masts of other shipping between this and the shore. Other boats are mooring at the landing place with Greenwich Pensioners looking on from the corner of the crane wharf above. Jack is seated in Freeman's boat handing in the net while Freeman stands paused in hauling it in with a boathook in his right hand. A couple of linked wicker fish-keeps float in the water in the right foreground.

Since 1890, the British Museum has had a monochrome drawing (ref: 1890,0512.122) which is a practically identical and which was formerly in the collection of Dr John Percy (1817-89): if that is correctly identified as by Thomas Mitchell - who died in 1789 - then Stanfield must have copied it, only adjusting the figure of Jack for age, and probably while in the hands of whoever owned it before Percy, who was only 23 when 'Poor Jack' was published.

Stanfield's drawing was wood-engraved by Henry Vizetelly to face page 74 of Marryat's 'Poor Jack' (Chapter XI). It bears a so-far unidentified collector's stamp, lower right edge, outside the image area. PAF6067-6071 are further 'Poor Jack' drawings by Stanfield, and PAJ1960 is another drawing by him which is an 1848 replica by him, rather than the original, of 'Fisher's Alley', Greenwich, also for Marryat's book. The drawing was been over-exposed to light (probably when framed and hung too long) before it entered the collection, which accounts for its poor condition.