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Decorated with honours, the admiral stands on a round pedestal, the lower face of which is decorated with reliefs of naked sea gods. Above them are listed his major victories at sea. While the uniformed Nelson balances with his left hand on an anchor and rope - he lost his right arm in 1797, during the attack on Tenerife - two marine cadets are brought forward by Britannia. On the other side is the British lion.
Large-scale monuments were not Flaxman's 'forte'; this monument is a strange mixture of contemporary and classicising elements, with the allegorical figure Britannia deriving from Minerva of Antiquity.
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