Signed by artist and dated. The old three-decker 'Agamemnon' is shown in port-broadside view from the south, in the river off East Greenwich, with only her mizzen mast standing and a sheer hulk alongside about to remove it. The timbers of the gunwales have already been largely stripped down to upper-deck level. The domes of Greenwich Hospital are visible on the far left beyond another hulk moored on the intervening waterfront. The 'Agamemnon' shown here was a 91-gun second-rate, launched at Woolwich Dockyard in 1852. She was sold to W.H. Moore for breaking up on 12 May 1870. See also PAF5500, a second-state proof; also PAI6978 and PAI6978 related mezzotints [TBC, and date of print as opposed to event, which is 1870] PvdM 10/05