Caption:
View of Greenwich Hospital from the River Thames, London. Home for retired sailors of the Royal Navy from 1692 to 1869 designed by architects Sir Christopher Wren and Nicholas Hawksmoor. L'Hopital de Greenwich. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1813. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.