Chelsea pensioners
- Title
- Chelsea pensioners
- Actual Title
- The Last Muster - Sunday at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea
- Artist
- H. Herkomer
- Status
- R.A.
- Type
- Oil on canvas
- Size (HxW, mm)
- 2145 x 1590
- Current Exhibition Location
- National Museums Liverpool: LL 3627
- Lent By
- W. L. Thomas, Esq.
- Catalog Number
- 107
- Catalog Page
- 16
- Catalog Description
- Every face tells its tale of the past, and the one at the end of the second row may tell of the future, for he is resting in the sleep of death. "Yonder sits some three-score pensioners of the hospital, listening to the prayers and psalms. It is a scene of age and early memories, and pompous death. How solemn the well remembered prayers are: 'The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delghteth in his way.'"--(Thackeray.)
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