A bust-length portrait of Augustus Keppel (1725–1786) facing to left in captain’s undress uniform, 1748–1767, with a black neck tie. The portrait is set in a fictive oval frame above a cartouche containing a representation of a naval engagement. To the left of the cartouche is a laurel branch and to the right is an anchor. Lettered above the image: ‘Vol. V.B.VIII.ch.7’. Also lettered below the image with the title, ‘The Honble. Augustus Keppel, Admiral of the Blue’, and the production details, ‘J. Collyer sc.’ This print was engrave by Joseph Collyer and published as an illustration in Frederic Hervey’s ‘The naval history of Great Britain; from the earliest Times to the Rising of the Parliament in 1779’ (London, 1779), volume 4, book 6, chapter 4, page 402. The print is based on an earlier engraving published in ‘The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure’, volume 28, May 1761, opposite page 271 (see PAD2938), with changes to the anchor in the foreground and the naval engagement in the cartouche. The portrait is after Joshua Reynolds’s portrait of 1752–3 (see BHC2823), which was first engraved in mezzotint by Edward Fisher in 1759 (see PAI5851). (Updated April 2019.)