(Updated November 2018) According to Mrs Mary Moutray, Nelson’s silhouette drawing of Collingwood was prompted by Collingwood’s drawing of Nelson (PAJ3942): ‘When the laughter which created this was over, Captain Nelson said, “And now, Collingwood, in revenge I will draw you in that queue of yours”, and produced in his turn an outline drawing in which he has caught with considerable success the features of his friend.’

Both drawings were in Collingwood's possession before descending to one of his daughters. At some point same-size lithographs were made from them and two of these (now PAD 3163, of this one, and PAD3162 of Nelson) appear to have entered the NMM collection with the originals by bequest of Major-General Sir Geoffrey Feilding in 1932. His sister, Dame Margaret Davidson, had another framed pair on the back of which her sister Alice had supplied the following information:

[1] 'These frames and mounts are exact copies of the originals now at Greenwich. The originals ... are the same size as these lithographic reproductions. All were sold together at an auction in Dover in 1886 or 1887. The originals were in gilt frames and black mounts from which these have been copied. The originals and a small packet of these reproductions were pought by General Sir Percy Feilding who was then in command of the South-Eastern District. The vendor was the servant of the late Miss Collingwood (daughter of the Admiral) who had just died and who, being on bad terms with her relations (sister), left the contents of her house in Dover to a favourite servant. With the originals were sold a packet of these lithographs most of them badly foxed.

[2] These portraits were executed when Nelson and Collingwood met at the house of Commodore Mowtray [sic] at Antigua about the year 1783. Nelson had lost his hair through fever and wore a wig when Collingwood made his sketch. In retaliation Nelson made one of Collingwood in his pigtail. (The incident is recorded in "Public and Private Correspondence of Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood"). General Feilding urged Queen Victoria to buy these portraits as also some other Collingwood relics, but she was so tiresome about the affair that he dropped the matter and got them for himself. Major General Sir Geoffrey Feilding (who died in October 1932) bequeathed the two originals to the National Naval and Nautical Museum at Greenwich [i.e. the pre-NMM Trustee body]' . This information was supplied by Commander W.W. Thorneley RN of 51 Gloucester Terrace, London, to whom Dame Margaret Davidson (a neighbour at no. 57) gave her two reproductions. His typed transcript, sent to the NMM Picture Department on 31 May 1952, is divided by a line into two sections (1 and 2 above) presumably written on the backs of the two separate frames of his copies. General the Hon. Sir Percy Feilding KCB (1827–1904) was the second son of William Feilding, 7th Earl of Denbigh (1796–1865), Gentleman of the Bedchamber to William IV, Queen Victoria's uncle.