Head-and-shoulders plaster bust on a round socle of Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson.

Nelson is shown facing forward, his head turned slightly to his left. He is in rear-admiral's full-dress uniform, with the empty right sleeve pinned straight across at the bottom and the two uniform buttons on the cuff showing the anchors horizontal.

He wears the ribands of the Bath and Crescent, the 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 another medal is fastened with a ribbon bow, its design showing the 'Victory' and 'Britannia' but probably intended to represent Davison's Nile medal.

This is one of two plaster copies of a Thaller and Ranson-pattern bust made by J. P.Langhorn, of which one was for the Venezuelan Naval Museum. The NMM bought the second for £50. They were both made from a mould in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.