Dick Dock, or the Lobster and Crab duchess on crutches and with devices

on crutches and with devices strapped to his legs

Interior view of the Automaton Exhibition in the Gothic Hall

across the Channel

showing the archway leading into Duke Street (now Sardinia Street)

'View of a Skittle Ground at Hampstead'

Dick Dock, or the Lobster and Crab duchess on crutches and with devices'Dick Dock, or the Lobster and Crab', 1806. Scene outside an alehouse by the River Thames. A Greenwich Pensioner with a wooden leg takes the hand of a soldier. The verse beneath describes a sailor (crab) insulting a Chelsea Pensioner (lobster) and then becoming reconciled on learning that the lobster had once saved his life.