The relatively modern inscription 'Nile' in the lower right corner of this drawing is misleading, since it appears to be a sketch for the Battle of Copenhagen. The anchored line of unrigged Danish warships and floating batteries are shown at the centre left, with Nelson's line anchored to their right by the stern, in stern view and fully rigged. The ship in port-bow view, in the right foreground, is the 'Agamemnon'. The vessel failed to get round the south-eastern corner of the Middle Ground shoal, which runs unseen into the picture between the ‘Agamemnon’ and the British line to its left. The 'Russell' and 'Bellona' are shown aground in stern view on the edge of the action and on the west side of the shoal. In the right distance bomb vessels can be seen firing high trajectory shells over the engaged fleets against the defences of Copenhagen. Copenhagen is roughly indicated by three 'spires', one being that of the city Exchange, above the Danish line. This is a very different composition from Pocock's best known depiction of the action, in bird's-eye view seen from the north-east (BHC0529), which was painted and engraved for Clarke and MacArthur's ‘Life of Admiral Lord Nelson’ (1809).