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Ornaments of Chelsea Hospital;-or-a peep into the last century.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: James Gillray

Published by: Hannah Humphrey
Title
Ornaments of Chelsea Hospital;-or-a peep into the last century.
Description
English: A three quarter length portrait of Dr. Messenger Monsey walking towards the spectator; his right arm rests on the shoulder of a Chelsea pensioner; both men walk with sticks. Monsey wears a hat and wig, the pensioner holds his hat in his right hand. The background is the north front of Chelsea Hospital showing its pediment and eastern portion. This is very freely sketched, as are two pensioners with crutches by the doorway. Beneath the title is etched:



'Epitaph on the late Dr Monsey, supposed to have been written by himself.
Here lie my old limbs - my vexation now ends,
For I've liv'd much too long for myself & my Friends
As to church-yards & grounds which the Parsons call holy,
Tis a rank piece of priestcraft, & founded on folly;
In short, I despise them; and as for my Soul,
Which may mount the last day with my bones from this hole
I think that it really hath nothing to fear
From the God of mankind, whom I truly revere.
What the next world may be, little troubles my pate
If not better than this, I beseech thee, Oh! Fate,
When the bodies of millions fly up in a riot,
To let the old carcase of Monsey lie quiet.
Peter Pindar.' 19 January 1789


Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: Dr Messenger Monsey
Date 1789
date QS:P571,+1789-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 315 millimetres
Width: 279 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.5820
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) Monsey, physician to Chelsea Hospital for forty-seven years, died there aged 95 on 26 Dec. 1788. He was a freethinker and gave directions that his body was to be dissected after death and the 'remainder' 'put in a hole'. 'D.N.B.' The pensioner is a man whom Monsey called his crutch. Grego, 'Gillray', p. 114. Wright and Evans, No. 379.

Reprinted, 'G. W.G.', 1830.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5820
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