An oval bust-length portrait of Sir Charles Wager (1666–1743) wearing a long wig and a metal breastplate under his coat with a rocky cliff behind his head and his flagship in the right-hand background. Lettered beneath the image with the title, ‘The Right Honble. Sr. Charles Wager Knt. Admiral of ye White Squadron of his Majties fleet, First Lord Commissr. of ye Admiralty & one of His Majesties most Honble. Privy Council.’ Also lettered with the production details and a dedication to Sir Arthur Onslow: ‘T. Gibson pinxt. / I. Faber fecit 1737. / Done from an Original Painting in the Possession of the Rt. Honble. Arthur Onslow Esq. speaker of ye Honble House of Commons To whom this Plate is most humbly Dedicated by his most humble servant, John Faber.’ This print is a reprint with an amended inscription of Faber’s earlier plate, dated 1732 (see PAF3357). The portrait is after Thomas Gibson’s oil painting of 1731, which is now in the collection of the National Maritime Museum (see BHC3072). As noted in the print’s inscription, Gibson’s painting was owned at the time of engraving by the Speaker of the House of Commons Arthur Onslow, who was a close friend of the sitter. The inscription refers to Wager as a Privy Counsellor, which he became in January 1732, as First Lord of the Admiralty, which he became in June 1733, and as admiral of the white, which he became in February 1734. (Updated May 2019.)