Inscribed, as title, by the artist. The fifth of a group of 11 designs for wood-engravings, out of 32 that Birkett Foster did, to illustrate the 1854 edition of Southey's 'Life of Nelson' published by David Bogue, London. It is untitled. The others, not all in necessarily finished form and not in chronological order, are PAE5373-PAE5383. It represents an incident early in Nelson's career as a young captain, and is set in Fanny Nisbet's uncle's house on the island of Nevis in the West Indies, before they were married there in March 1787. The boy is Josiah Nisbet, son of Fanny's deceased first husband, a doctor. The picture appeared (untitled) on page 60 in the book, where the story appears of how Fanny's uncle (seen in the doorway) discovered them playing. Other images in the edition were done by Edward Duncan (10) or reproduced pictures by Richard Westall, Sir Thomas Lawrence and other uncredited but mostly identifiable sources. The title here is as published. For Foster's full contributions to the edition see PAE5373. [PvdM 9/15]