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The Central Panel

  1. Distant view of the new St Paul’s Cathedral
  2. Windmills on the Isle of Dogs
  3. Ship from Canaletto’s painting of Greenwich
  4. Nelson’s funeral; barges leaving Greenwich
  5. Cargo ship, tilt boat and ferry
  6. Woolwich Dockyard; shipbuilding for the Napoleonic Wars
  7. St Alfege’s Church and portraits of John Julius Angerstein and James Wolfe who are buried there
  8. The Old Royal Naval College with Captain Cook, Sir James Thornhill and a Greenwich Pensioner
  9. The old and new St Mary’s churches, Woolwich; both standing at the same time
  10. The Arsenal & Royal Artillery
    - the Brass Foundry
    - the Marquis of Granby
    - the Rotunda
    - the Warren
    - the Artillery Barracks and Cadets
  11. Ranger’s House and rose garden with Lord Chesterfield
  12. A sedan chair
  13. Greenwich Park; “Tumbling down the hill”, Samuel Johnson and fairground musicians
  14. Woodlands, the Angerstein children and Fanny Burney
  15. Vanbrugh Castle and Sir John Vanbrugh
  16. Sevendroog Castle and the gibbet on Shooters Hill
  17. Montagu House, Ignatius Sancho and Princess Caroline
  18. ‘Goffers on the Heath’; animals found there and sheep grazing
  19. A highwayman robs a carriage
  20. A chaise at a toll gate
  21. Haymaking
  22. Morden College
  23. Old Eltham Church and village
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The Border Panels

Left
Morden College Coat of Arms

Shuttlecock and battledore

Wedgwood teapot

Glass Goblets

A fanlight

Ink stand and quill pen

Pineapple stone finial

Right
Sir Christopher Wren’s Coat
of Arms

Playing cards and dice

A man’s wig

Tea caddy

Manacles

A fan

A Georgian coin

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