A three-quarter-length portrait of Edward Hawke (1705–1781) in flag officer’s full-dress uniform, 1767–1783, with the ribbon and star of the Order of the Bath. He stands in front of a rocky cliff, holding his hat in his right hand and his sword in his left with a naval engagement in the left background. Lettered beneath the image with a facsimile of the sitter’s signature and the title, ‘Admiral Edward Lord Hawke K. B.’ Also lettered with the production details and publication line: ‘Painted by F. Cotes R.A. / Engraved by H.T. Ryall. / Fisher, Son & Co., London & Paris, 1837.’ This portrait was engraved by Henry Thomas Ryall after an original painting by Francis Cotes in the Greenwich Hospital Collection (see BHC2754). Cotes’s painting was produced in the late 1760s and presented to the Naval Gallery at Greenwich Hospital by the sitter’s grandson, Edward Harvey Hawke, third Baron Hawke. This print was published by Fisher, Son and Company in 1837. It is a later reprint with new lettering, from the plate engraved for E. H. Locker's 'Memoirs of Celebrated Naval Commanders...' (1831) and originally published by Harding and Lepard on 1 March 1831 (see PAD2909). (Updated May 2019.)