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An Indian of ye Outawas Tribe & his Family going to War

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by George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess Townshend
pen and ink and watercolour, 1751-1758
7 1/4 in. x 9 3/4 in. (185 mm x 245 mm)
Bequeathed by Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer, 1971
Primary Collection
NPG 4855(72)

Artistback to top

George Townshend, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquess Townshend (1724-1807), Field Marshal; Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Artist associated with 74 portraits, Sitter in 4 portraits.

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Townsend, a soldier and politician, fought in Germany and Scotland and served for some years as aide-de-camp to William, Duke of Cumberland. He received the surrender of Quebec after the death of James Wolfe and was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1767-1772). In his capacity as Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk, he organise the militia of the county against the threatened invasion of Napoleon Bonaparte. A talented caricaturist, an album of his sketches was collected by his friend William Windham and is now in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery. This caricature of a Native American family is likely to have been made by Townsend when he was serving under Wolfe in 1759.

Linked displays and exhibitionsback to top

Family Faces (14 February 2005 - 4 September 2005)

Portrait setback to top

The Townshend album: drawings by the 1st Marquess Townshend, 1751-58

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Events of 1751back to top

Current affairs

Frederick, Prince of Wales dies and is succeeded by his son, later George III, as Prince of Wales.
Third Gin Act requires government inspection of distilleries and restricts sales to licensed premises in an effort to curtail consumption.

Art and science

Thomas Gray publishes his poem Elegy written in a Country Church Yard.
Philosopher David Hume publishes An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals.
Eliza Haywood publishes her novel The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless.
William Hogarth publishes his satirical engravings Beer-Street, Gin Lane and The Four Stages of Cruelty.

International

Robert Clive reopens hostilities with the French in India. He prevails after holding out during the siege of Arcot.
First part of the Encyclopédie - an innovative 28 volume encyclopedia which represented the dominant strains of Enlightenment thinking - is published in France, edited by Diderot.
Swedish chemist Alex Cronstedt identifies nickel as an impurity in copper ore as a separate metallic element.

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