Title etched below image.
A portrait of Lord Effingham standing on a terrace in profile to the left pointing to a flight of steps (left) leading upwards. The steps are flanked by a low wall on which is inscribed "I can now serve my country with honor". Beneath this, and between two pointing hands, is inscribed, "The true road to preferment [sic]". On each step is inscribed a word, these are, reading upwards, "Sincerity", "Plain-dealing", "Honesty", "Justice", "[Co]untry", "[Reli]gion", "...y [?liberty]". An open book lies at the foot of the steps, inscribed "Patriotism upon Principle". Effingham holds a baton in his left hand; in front of him, on the low wall, is his military hat, against which leans a long wand of office. He is plainly dressed, wears his own hair, but has a sword and ruffled shirt, which recall the "mot" of Burke, when Effingham changed his habitually plain manner of dress for the court-suit and sword worn by those in office, that he was wearing the coat in which he had been killed in the Gordon Riots. In the distance, and below the terrace on which Effingham stands, a battle is in progress, indicated by men in close rank on a minute scale, with a British flag, and clouds of smoke. A large sun is rising above the horizon (right) inscribed "Pro Patria non sibi." Cf. British Museum online catalogue.