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The Way of the World (Greenwich Pensioners) (caricature)
Grant's Oddities No 7. Two battered Greenwich Pensioners, one missing all four limbs, the other an arm and a leg, in conversation outside a building marked 'The Helpless Ward' of the Hospital Infirmary, with three other severely incapacitated veterans beside it.
The inscription below the title reports the conversation: ' Ah! Messmate, you are a happy Fish to what I am. you have only got an Arm and a Leg lopp'd off. Whilst I hav'n't a Limb left about me but what's of Timber, with one Eye out and my Nose damaged.'- 'Go it Joe, grumble, grumble. You are like the rest of th' World. Never contented.'
The inscription below the title reports the conversation: ' Ah! Messmate, you are a happy Fish to what I am. you have only got an Arm and a Leg lopp'd off. Whilst I hav'n't a Limb left about me but what's of Timber, with one Eye out and my Nose damaged.'- 'Go it Joe, grumble, grumble. You are like the rest of th' World. Never contented.'
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Object Details
| ID: | PAH3318 |
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| Collection: | Fine art |
| Type: | |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Grant, C. J.; Kendrick, J. |
| Places: | Greenwich |
| Date made: | 26 April 1834 |
| People: | Greenwich Pensioner |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Sheet: 360 x 276 mm; Mount: 557 mm x 405 mm |