A three-quarter-length portrait of Augustus Keppel (1725–1786) in captain’s undress uniform, 1748–1767, pointing with his sword in his left hand. He stands a rocky beach with crashing waves and a high cliff in the background. Lettered beneath the image with the title and publication detail, ‘The Honourable Augustus Keppel, Commander of his Majesty’s Ship the Torbay. / Engraved for the Royal Magazine.’ This portrait was published as an illustration in ‘The Royal Magazine, or, Gentleman’s Monthly Companion’, volume 2, February 1760, opposite page 89, alongside a ‘O[b]servatons on the taking of Goree, and the Intrepidity of the Commanders of the British Navy’ (pp. 89–90). The portrait is derived in reverse on Joshua Reynolds’s full-length oil painting of 1752–3 (see BHC2823). The immediate source for this print may well have been Edward Fisher’s mezzotint after Reynolds’s painting, published in late 1759 (see PAI5851). (Updated May 2019.)