The Chelsea Pensioner, Chelsea, London living conditions Path Textured Orchid in Blue

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with figures in Guildhall Yard

the harlot's handsome young lover has cost her an easy life with her Jewish protector and she is now in a Drury Lane lodging house

The sign of the rose hangs above the door

Also showing horse drawn vehicles and a sign on a building for tobacco and snuff

The Chelsea Pensioner, Chelsea, London living conditions Path Textured Orchid in Blue'The Chelsea Pensioner', Chelsea, London, c1840. A war veteran in the traditional red uniform of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea sits reading from a newspaper to a young boy. The old man wears a medal on his chest, spectacles, and a tricorn hat with cockade. He holds a clay pipe in one hand.