An oval bust-length portrait of George Bridges Rodney (bap. 1718, d. 1792) in flag officer’s undress uniform, 1748–1767, with an overhanging cliff in the background. The portrait is set in a thick frame upon a fictive plinth, which is lettered with the title, ‘Sr. George Bridges Rodney Bart. Admiral of the White.’ This print was published by John Hinton as an illustration in ‘The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure’, volume 67 (1780), opposite page 337, where it appeared alongside a ‘Summary Account of the Naval Services of Sir George Brydges Rodney’, pp. 337–9. The portrait is after Joshua Reynolds’s oil painting of 1756–9 (now at Petworth), which was first engraved in mezzotint by James Watson in 1762 (see PAG6409). (Updated May 2019.)