A three-quarter-length portrait of Edward Boscawen (1711–1761) standing in flag officer’s undress uniform, 1748–67, with a hat. Boscawen holds in his right hand a chart of an island labelled ‘Cape Breton’, referring to his leading role at the Siege of Louisbourg, a fortress on the island, in early summer 1758. There is an anchor and foliage in the right foreground and a ship in the left background. Lettered beneath the image: ‘The Honourable Edward Boscawen, Admiral of the Blue Squadron of His Majesty’s Fleet / And One of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. / Cape Breton taken 1758. / Five French Ships of the Line taken & burnt 1759. / Printed for John Bowles at the York House in Cornhill, London.’ This print is a reworking of James Macardell’s mezzotint after Joshua Reynolds’s portrait (see PAH5398). Painted in 1755–7 and now owned by Lord Falmouth, Reynolds’s original portrait shows the sitter in full-length; the National Maritime Museum owns a nineteenth-century copy of this painting (see BHC2565). Macardell cropped the portrait to three-quarter-length format but otherwise copied Reynolds’s original. In this print, more extensive changes have been made, including the addition of the anchor on the right and the chart in Boscawen’s hand. In a further change, Boscawen is shown wearing his hat on his head, rather than holding it at his side. A reversed version of this print was included as an illustration in ‘The Naval Chronicle’, vol. 3 (1960), p. 177. (Updated April 2019.)