Two Greenwich Pensioners sit outside a riverside tavern drinking and smoking. One, with a wooden leg, is shaking hands with a one-armed soldier (whose jacket is miscoloured blue rather than red). Behind another one-legged sailor watches the shipping on the river alongside which another one-legged Greenwich Pensioner is walking on crutches. The personnel suggest that the church-like classical building behind, with a portico and two unequal-sized domes, may be intended as the Royal Hospital for Seaman at Greenwich (but if so, crudely shown). The print illustrates a song by Charles Dibdin, here set below image and title. In this 'Dick Dock, a tar in Greenwich moor'd' (the 'crab') provokes the 'lobster' but is reconciled on discovering he once saved his life. The usual song title is 'The Veterans', which is also that of an etching George Cruikshank (Isaac's younger son) did of the same subject to illustrate 'Collected Songs of the Late Charles Dibdin' (1841). PAH3328 is another copy. [PvdM updated 1/18]