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Inscribed in pen and brown ink, upper center to lower center: "GREENWICH, a town in Kent 4 Miles | Was the birth place of Queen Mary & Queen Elizabeth. There | Edward the VI died. A Palace erected here by Humphry Duke of | Gloucester, who named it Placentia, was enlarged by Henry 7 | and completed by Henry the VIII. but being afterwd. suffered to ruin | was pulled down by Charles II. who began a magnificient | edifice + loved to see the first wing finished. He also enlarged | the Park walled it round, planted it. & erected a Royal Observatory | on the top of the hill. for the use of the celebrated Flamsteed, | whose name the hill retains. He likewise furnished it with | mathematical instruments for astronomical observations | & a deep dry well for observing the stars in the day time"

Watermark on album page: "Smith & Allnutt 1823"