No. 10 of 36 (PAI0849 - PAI0884).

(Recto) Inscribed top left 'Barcelona / Sept 1851' and below the drawing, 'Trafalgar Capt Greville' and 'Mole Head'. The 'Trafalgar is riding to a single anchor in a choppy sea, with a small Spanish boat coming alongside. To the right the Mole appears as a low bank, probably with the Spanish naval yard and galley sheds (now housing the Barcelona Maritime Museum) immediately behind its outer end, and the town to the right. The drawing continues to the left, on the verso of PAI0857, which is inscribed top left 'Mon Juic / Sept 51'. This shows the 600-foot bluff of Montjuïc, crowned by its mid-18th-century fortress, below which Mends shows lateen-rigged Spanish vessels (one distantly) and to the right a British naval paddle steamer, inscribed below 'Oberon / Lt Norman'. This is presumably in attendance on the 'Trafalgar'. The castle of Montjuïc has spectacular views over Barcelona and the nearby coast: it also had an unenviable reputation from the 18th century until the Franco era in Spain as a place of detention (and torture) of political prisoners. It is now the Barcelona military museum with fine adjacent botanical gardens.

(Verso) In the top right a pencil and watercolour study shows two frigates in action, inscribed above '3 rounds quick firing'. Top centre is a study of a similar frigate under sail, seen from starboard, with the masts and rigging in rather rubbed pencil work only. Top left is a sharp pencil study of a ship's beakhead, with a small figurehead. Across the bottom is an atmospheric pencil sketch of a seascape with a distant island and two ships on the horizon, and a piece of wreckage floating lower left.