Inscribed: (bottom-left, in ink) “Line of Battle Ship – in Portsmouth Harbour. John Wichelo – 1830”; (bottom-centre, faintly in pencil) “Ganges”. There are other pencil annotations top and bottom-right, which are not fully decipherable in reproduction, of which the upper ones appear to be workings out of the vessel’s bow and stern profiles.

Medium includes bodycolour.