An early steel-plate from Arnald's oil (BHC0509) of Nelson's victory at the Nile, showing the French 'L'Orient' exploding, with 'Swiftsure' in the centre. It was engraved for E. H. Locker's ' Memoirs of Celebrated Naval Commanders...' , the first selected catalogue of the Naval Gallery of Greenwich Hospital originally issued in four parts in 1831-2. The inscription records it as one of the four paintings with which the British Institution supported the early years of the Gallery, established by Locker in 1824. The BI appears to have mounted a competition for suitably patriotic naval historical subjects to be painted at 500 guneas each, for presentation to the Gallery. Arnald's was one: a sketch was exhibited at the BI in 1825 and the finished work in 1827. The others were by H. P. Briggs (BHC0476), Samuel Drummond (BHC0506) and George Jones (BHC0492).