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Description: | Mounted on sheet with PAI8814-PAI8815, PAI8817. This is taken from from the 'Illustrated London News' 12 April 1845, p. 240. It shows a Pensioner coming back down the Hall after receiving his medal between massed ranks of boys from the Greenwich Hospital School. The account of the ceremony includes a more detailed engraving of the presentation at the upper end of the Lower Hall and a portrait of Sir Robert Stopford, the Governor of Greenwich Hospital, who gave them out, and a biographical sketch of his career. An illustration in the previous issue of ILN, 5 April 1845 shows the medal, which commemorated the official inauguration of 'the Nelson Testimonial' (i.e. Nelson's Column) in Trafalgar Square on 21 October 1844. The text there explains that a subscription had been raised to commemorate this by giving a dinner (presumably in Trafalgar Square) for all the survivors of Nelson's main actions - St Vincent, Tenerife, the Nile, Copenhagen, Trafalgar - but that at local residents' request the more practical plan adopted had been to issue these medals to them, with a gratuity of ten shillings. For an example of the white-metal medal see MEC1331. [PvdM 9/04].
Box Title: Admiralty Collection: Prints & Photographs.
caption: Distribution of the 'Nelson Medals', in the Painted Hall, Greenwich Hospital | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Greenwich Pensioner prints | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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