Admiral Sir Archibald Lucius Douglas

Signed Spy (Leslie Ward), this chromolithograph — Men of the Day No. 843 — carries the caption "North America and West Indies", referencing Douglas's command of the Royal Navy's North America and West Indies Station. Ward renders the Admiral as a broad, solid figure in a dark frock coat and waistcoat, gold watch-chain looping prominently across his chest, hands thrust into his pockets with the easy authority of a senior officer at rest. The face is jowly and florid, the moustache a grey goatee — characteristic of Ward's technique of inflating the subject's most commanding physical traits. The caption references the Station, which existed to protect British commercial and colonial interests across the Atlantic.