A head to torso engraved portrait of Captain Matthew Webb within a printed oval surround. This portrait is taken from the Illustrated London News when reporting his death in July 1883. He had drowned in his attempt to swim the Whirlpool Rapids of the Niagara River. The portrait shows him with two medals: the Stanhope Medal for attempting to save a crewman who had fallen overboard the Cunard liner 'Russia' (1867) on 22 April 1873. The other was the Liverpool Humane Society medal presented for the same event.