2-699-403 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Painted Hall, Greenwich Hospital', (c1878). Visitors in the Hall, the ceiling and end wall of which were painted between 1707-1726 by Sir James Thornhill. Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich, (now part of greater London), was a home for retired Royal Navy sailors from 1692 to 1869. The buildings were later used by the Royal Naval College. From Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, And Its Places. The Southern Suburbs, Volume VI, by Edward Walford. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York, c1878]