This is taken from from the 'Illustrated London News', 12 April 1845, p. 240. It shows a Pensioner coming back down the Hall after receiving his medal between massed ranks of boys from the Greenwich Hospital School. The account of the ceremony, which took place on Wednesday 2 April 1845, includes a more detailed engraving of the presentation at the upper end of the Lower Hall and a portrait of Sir Robert Stopford, the Governor of Greenwich Hospital, who gave them out, and a biographical sketch of his career.

The present print bears the artist's name 'LANDELLS' at the bottom. The other two are unsigned but are also probably by him as both wood-engraver (as which he had been trained by Thomas Bewick) and the 'artist reporter' who witnessed the event. Having advised on the foundation of the ILN in 1842 Landells was its earliest recruit in that role up to his death 1860. An illustration in its previous issue (5 April 1845) shows the medal, which commemorated the official inauguration of 'the Nelson Testimonial' (i.e. Nelson's Column) in Trafalgar Square on 21 October 1844. The text there explains that a subscription had been raised to commemorate this by giving a dinner (presumably in Trafalgar Square) for all the survivors of Nelson's main actions - St Vincent, Tenerife, the Nile, Copenhagen, Trafalgar - but that at local residents' request the more practical plan adopted had been to issue these medals to them, with a gratuity of ten shillings. For an example of the white-metal medal see MEC1331. Landells's original sketch for another view of the distribution of the 'Nelson Medals' is ZBA9413.