Waxwork head of Nelson, originally part of a full-figure model that is believed to have been made as part of a tableau of him in his cabin for an exhibition at Antwerp about 1929, probably the Exposition Internationale Maritime et Coloniale d'Anvers of 1930. It appears to have been commissioned by the Overseas Trade Department of the British government, but was possibly not used and was transferred to the embryonic NMM in 1933 via the Admiralty. It was reportedly made by 'Mr Tussaud', perhaps John Tussaud (who made a Nelson tableau for the Royal Naval exhibition at Chelsea in 1891) or one of his family successors in that famous waxworks business. It came and is preserved with a small design model of the proposed cabin tableau.