A more elaborate presentation copy of PAH9217: print on paper with linen backing and silk ribbon edging, attached to wooden roller with a printed silk overlay. The print inscription reads:

'This representation of His Majesty's Ship MAGNIFICENT, 74 guns, JOHN HAYES, ESQ, CAPTAIN, / Showing (after cutting the Cables in a S.W. Gale) the manner of making Sail under reefed Courses and close reefed Topsails, / with Yards and Topmasts struck, and saving the Ship from destruction on a Lee shore on the 17th Dec 1812. Is by Gracious Permission dedicated to HIS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY WILLIAM IV by His Majesty's faithful Subject & Servant John Hayes, Capt. R.N. C.B. / When the cables were cut the Ship was in Shoal water amongst the Rocks, and not more than Two Cables length from the Reef off / Isle de Rea, near Basque Road, and with the send of the sea was at one time only on Foot from the ground' . Immediately under the print 'Painted by Gilbert' / '(ACKERMANN & Co EXEC't) / Eng'd by C. Hunt',/ [and below Hunt] 'Sir Philip Durham & Squadron in Basque Road' (as shown to the right). Covering the print is a fuller explanation of how the ship was saved printed on silk.

Hayes's seamanship in saving 'Magnificent' on this occasion was legendary and earned him the nickname 'Magnificent Hayes'. He may have patronized Gilbert, about whom almost nothing is yet known as a marine painter though his quality is at least that of Whitcombe, Anderson or Francis Sartorius: he does not figure in Archibald's 'Dictionary of Sea Painters' and no oil paintings by him are recorded in British public collections. However, two - of Hayes's later exploits in the 'Majestic' in 1814 - were sold at a picture sale at Mallams, Oxford, on 8 July 2015 which appear to establish that his initial was 'G. Gilbert', though this is only given on tablets on their frames (see Notebook field).