The Surrey Dispensary, Great Dover Street, Southwark. Coloured lithograph by R. Alford, c.1840.

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1840
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39345i
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The Surrey Dispensary, Great Dover Street, Southwark. Coloured lithograph by R. Alford, c.1840. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The Dispensary was founded in 1777, moved to this Great Dover Street site c.1840, and to Trinity Street in 1927

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[London]

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1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 10.4 x 15.4 cm

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The Governors and the public are solicited to view the interior arrangements of the building ; R. Alford lith. Lettering in the print, i.e. inscriptions on the building, reads: "Surrey Dispensary", "Instituted 1777", and "MDCCCXL"

References note

The Dispensary is mentioned, but not illustrated, in the Survey of London, XXV, St. George's Fields, 1955, p.109
Not in B. Adams, London illustrated, London, 1983

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Wellcome Collection 39345i

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