A Greenwich Pensioner, wearing a cocked hat and apparently with Hospital Boatswain's lace on his cuff, seated by a tavern table to the viewer's right, with a panelled background behind. Another copy in the volume of Greenwich-related portraits compiled by Charles Kadwell (1847, p.154) in the Greenwich Heritage Centre collection bears a later pencil inscription identifying the sitter as 'Old John, the Bo'sun' suggesting he was a known individual and confirming his Hospital rank. He holds a clay pipe in his right hand and his left rests on his stick. A pewter ale mug is on the table beside him and a circular object is below on the wooden floor, possibly a fallen bowl or tobacco box. The inscription is integral to the plate image, along the bottom left edge: 'Pubd. Decr. 1st 1834 by H. Dawe, 6 Bartholomew Place, Kentish Town'. PAH3309 is another copy with almost identical colouration but with the inscription trimmed off. There is reportedly a matching print of a Chelsea Pensioner, but not in the Museum collection.