This print is one of ten illustrations in 'Songs of the Late Charles Dibdin' (with some others) collected by his son Thomas Dibdin (John Murray, London, 1841) f. p. 83. It illustrates the song of the same name, facing, in which 'Dick Dock, a Tar at Greenwich moor'd' - i.e., a Greenwich Pensioner - engages a Chelsea Pensioner ('Old Hannibal') in verbal sparring and they end up drinking together in a riverside tavern. This is the scene Cruikshank shows, with the two veterans seated at an outside table - the Chelsea 'Lobster' missing his right arm and the Greenwich 'Crab' with a right eye-patch and left peg-leg. Behind are buildings and the masts of a ship with the inn door and its portly landlord (rear left) smoking a clay pipe: other pipes are on the table. Above the inn sign shows a warship under sail and the landlor's name 'T.Transom'. For a full list of the illustrations see PAJ1820 (the first). [PvdM [1/18]