Hand-coloured aquatint of the 'Victory' leaving Portsmouth with Nelson's body on 11 December 1805, after bringing it home from the Battle of Trafalgar. However, this is the same plate as PAJ2246, originally issued in 1792 from Dodd's oil painting exhibited at the Royal Academy that year (BHC3694), but now from a different publisher and with the title opportunistically changed. The only significant visual change is the plain white flag on the foremast (originally red in the painting and coloured earlier versions of the print), which is itself wrong for a vice-admiral of the white - Nelson's final rank: it should be a plain St George's cross. By 1805 the Union flag, and the related British ensigns, were also in their modern form incorporating the St Patrick saltire but they are still shown here without it (i.e. pre-1801). These are not things that a marine artist and engraver like Dodd is likely to have let pass unless he was being unusually slovenly. The explanation may be that he or the original publisher had sold the plate after 1792 and that he had nothing to do with its 1806 re-issue with its false description intended to snare an undiscriminating post-Trafalgar public, eager for Nelsoniana.