Robert Taylor’s magnificent painting shows Victory breaking through the enemy line at 1.00pm 21st October 1805.
A broadside has crippled Admiral Villeneuve’s French flagship Bucentaure, seen off Victory’s port side, while Nelson's gunners fire a second broadside into the Santisima Trinidad. Just astern, the Temeraire maneuvers to trap the Redoubtable between herself and Victory, and thus seal her fate.