This Plate of the Royal Military Asylum and Training-College, -Chelsea, is respectfully dedicated by permission to the Rev.d G.R. Gleig M.A. Chaplain General to the Forces by his obedient and humble servant - Frederick Whitaker, Military Student. August 1856
F. Whitaker, Delt et Fecit Printed by R. Appel's Anastatic Process Zincograph, sheet 240 x 330mm (9½ x 13"). Creases; very scarce. The Duke of York's Headquarters near Sloane Square in Chelsea, London, completed in 1801 to the designs of John Sanders. Originally the Royal Military Asylum, it was a school for the children of soldiers' widows. Part of the site is now occupied by the Saatchi Gallery, with another part used for an independent school.
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