Printed below the image "Plate 2. Dedicated by permission the right honorable the lord commissioners of the admiralty. The Java as appeared at 35 min past 4 P.M. after having sustained several raking broadsides from the Constitution whilst closely engaging her until she became a perfect wreck, the main mast alone standing, the rigging shot to pieces, the main yard in the slings. The Constitution making sail and getting out of gunshot."