This print shows a one-legged Greenwich Pensioner explaining Turner's 'Battle of Trafalgar' of 1822-24 in the Naval Gallery in the Painted Hall to a boy in a classic late-Victorian sailor suit. The title 'Twas in Trafalgar's Bay' is the first phrase of John Braham's famous song, 'The Death of Nelson', c.1806. The print is based upon George Fox’s painting ‘Tales of the Past’, signed and dated 1882. This work anticipated and perhaps inspired Edward Taylor's painting of 1883, 'T'was a famous victory' (now in Birmingham City Art Gallery), which shows a Pensioner giving a similar lecture, in the National Gallery, to two young Victorian sailors from the 'Victory' in front of Turner's 1806 version of Trafalgar (now in the Tate collection). Both pictures were painted well after Greenwich Hospital finally closed in 1869, though the Naval Gallery remained open (as part of the Royal Naval College from 1873) until the pictures were transferred to the NMM in 1936. In the present print Turner's painting and its frame are shown far from accurately and rather smaller than they are. The Pensioner also wears two medals, one probably the 1848 General Service medal, the other unidentifiable with a red ribbon. PvdM 9/04, updated KG 7/21.