Home of the Channel Fleet under the command of the Earl of Bridport (Lord Hood). His flagship HMS Duke with the single topmast is the large first rate on the left while HMS Brunswick the vessel designated to host the executions is anchored off her starboard bow. It is the dawn of the day of the executions... In Dickensian terms, "It came coldly looking like a dead face out of the sky, the moon and the stars, turning pale and dying as if creation's only purpose was its journey into death's dominion."

23" x 15"