Box base commemorating Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson (1758-1805) based on a medal. The base depicts Bellona, winged, laureate, bundle of thunderbolts in raised right hand, stepping over the sea, on which in distance antique galleys are fighting. Legend: 'IPSE BELLI FVLMEN.' (Himself the thunderbolt of war). Outer legend on a garter belt 'RECORD OF NAVAL VALOUR. EVERY MAN HAS DONE HIS DUTY'. Attached to the base are twelve circular coloured mezzotints of British naval victories published by Edward Orme as follows: (1) Ld Rodney's victory (2) Ld Howe's victory (3) Lord Nelson boarding St Joseph (4) Ld Duncan's Victory (5) Battle of the Nile (6) Victory at Copenhagen (7) Sir Richard Strachan's victory (8) Ld Nelson, Trafalgar (9) Boarding the Chesapeake (10) Bonaparte on the Northumberland (11) Storming of Algiers (12) Slaves delivered Algiers. Additional text is printed on the reverse. At either end of the chain of mezzotints are two pieces of card depicting compass points with an anchor.