Looking west in the undercroft under the Painted Hall, toward the kitchens. Pensioners ate in the undercrofts from the time that Thornhill began to decorate the Painted Hall in 1707-08. It only became a general refectory for the Royal Naval College in 1939. From the Illustrated London News, 25 March 1865, p. 280; for further details see PAI8788. It is mounted on a sheet with PAI8782-PAI8789 and PAI8791.