Head-and-shoulders marble bust of Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson on a round socle, the sitter's head turned slightly to his left. He wears rear-admiral's full-dress uniform, with ribands of the Bath and Crescent, stars of the Crescent (above), St Ferdinand (left), the Bath (right) and the two Naval gold medals awarded for St Vincent and the Nile, the latter in reverse inscribed: 'NILE / FIRST AUGUST / 1798'.

Below the stars is another medal fastened with a ribbon bow, its design similar to the obverse of the Naval gold medal but probably intended to represent the Nile medal privately issued by Nelson's agent, Alexander Davison. The empty right sleeve is fastened straight across at the bottom of the bust with the anchors on the two uniform buttons on the cuff shown horizontal.

This appears to be a marble copy after Thaller and Ranson's bust of 1801 (SCU0089). How it entered the Greenwich Hospital Collection is not yet clear. This bust - now cleaned and conserved - is currently (2010) on display in 'Discover Greenwich', the World Heritage Site visitor centre at the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich.