A three-quarter-length portrait to left of Sir Charles Wager (1666–1743) wearing a long wig and a plain coat over a metal breastplate. He holds the hilt of his sword in his left hand and a baton of command in his right. There is a cliff behind him on the left and a naval engagement on the right. Lettered beneath the image with the title, ‘The Right Honble. Sr. Charles Wager Knt. Admiral of the White Squadron of His Majesties Fleet, first Lord Commissr of ye Admiralty, One of His Majesties most Honble Privy council, & one of ye Lords of ye Regency Ao. 1741.’ Also lettered with the production details and publication line, ‘Isaac Whood pinxt. / J. Faber fecit. / Printed for Robt. Sayer Opposite Fetter Lane Fleet Street.’ This portrait was engraved by John Faber the Younger after an oil painting by Isaac Whood. Faber published some impressions of the print himself (see PAF3358) but this version was published, with an amended publication line, by Robert Sayer. The print’s inscription refers to Wager as admiral of the white (his rank from February 1733 until his death ten years later), as First Lord of the Admiralty (an office he held from June 1733 until March 1741), as a privy councillor (as he was from January 1732 onwards) and as one of the Lords of the Regency in 1741. The latter refers to how, when George II undertook his regular trips to Hanover, Britain was ruled in his stead by a “regency” comprising of members of the inner cabinet. Wager represented the Admiralty in the regency of 1741. (Updated May 2019.)