A three-quarter-length portrait of Edward Boscawen (1711–1761) in a waistcoat, coat and wig, with his hat under his arm. He holds a partially rolled chart in his right hand and rests his left hand on a stone plinth. He is framed on the right by a cliff and on the left by a distant view of a ships at sea. Lettered beneath the image with the sitter’s coat of arms and the title, ‘The Honourable Edward Boscawen One of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty and Admiral of the Blue Squadron of His Majestys Fleet. / Cape Breton Taken 1758. / Five French Ships taken & burnt 1758. / Plus Ultra.’ Also lettered with the production details and publication line, ‘A. Ramsay pinxt. / J. Faber fecit. / London. Printed for R. Sayer opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street.’ This print was engraved by John Faber the Younger after an oil painting by the Scottish artist Allan Ramsay (currently untraced). The plate was first published by Faber himself in 1747 (see PAF3406). This impression is a later reprint issued by Robert Sayer in or after 1759. The inscription has been updated to refer to Boscawen’s achievements in the 1750s, including his appointment as one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty in 1751, his promotion to Admiral of the Blue in January 1758, his capture of the French fortress at Louisbourg in Cape Breton in July 1758, and his victory at the Battle of Lagos, where his fleet captured or burnt five French ships, in August 1759. (Updated May 2019.)