Framed steel engraving entitled 'Nelson on board the San Josef receiving swords at Cape St. Vincent'. The incident shown is a Victorian reconstruction of Nelson's own account of how, having captured both the 'San Nicholas' and 'San Josef' at the Battle of Cape St Vincent, he received the swords of surrendering Spanish officers and passed them to his bargeman, William Fearney, 'who with the greatest sang-froid, tucked them under his arm'.

[If this is, as it appears to be, the full-size engraving published by Leggatt, Hayward and Leggatt of 79 Cornhill, London, 10 November 1853, its correct inscribed title is: 'Nelson Receiving the Swords on Board the San Josef, Feby. 14. 1797'. The inscription continues: 'To the British Navy this Historical Engraving from the Picture in the Possession of the Publishers is respectfully dedicated by Leggatt, Hayward and Leggatt'. This is transcribed from a framed copy with Warwick Leadlay, Greenwich, September 2005, which bears a pencil inscription 'for [Admiral] Sir William Parker, Admiralty' to whom it may have belonged. Anthony Cross of WL states that it is was originally accompanied by a blue-bound 'key' booklet of which he has seen copies. The print appears to derive from a similarly panoramic oil painting, now at the Royal Hospital School, Holbrook, to which it was bequeathed in or about 1963 by Mrs E. A. Hooper, widow of F.J. Hooper who had been a boy at the school, 1894-98. The painting is large and not particuarly good - though assessment is not helped by it being very dirty - and whether its is the original or itself a copy remains to be confirmed. There is a good smaller version by Barker of more conventional rectangular format, about a metre wide, in the Governmenty Art Collection, Collection, seen in Feb 2007 at the Joint Services Command and Staff College at Shrivenham, Wilts., to which it had been on loan for some time. PvdM 3/07]