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John Gale
9 of 54 portraits by Joseph Highmore
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John Gale
by George Vertue, after Joseph Highmore
line engraving, published 1726
6 5/8 in. x 4 in. (167 mm x 102 mm) paper size
Given by the daughter of compiler William Fleming MD, Mary Elizabeth Stopford (née Fleming), 1931
Reference Collection
NPG D27485
Artistsback to top
- Joseph Highmore (1692-1780), Painter. Artist or producer associated with 54 portraits.
- George Vertue (1683-1756), Engraver and antiquary. Artist or producer associated with 865 portraits, Sitter in 7 portraits.
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Current affairs
Mary Toft allegedly gives birth to sixteen rabbits in Godalming Surrey and becomes the subject of considerable controversy, involving the King's own physician Nathaniel St Andre. The story is later revealed to be a hoax.The Craftsman, a polemical political periodical, is launched by opposition leaders Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke and William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath.
Art and science
St Martin-in-the-Fields church in London is completed to the design of the architect James Gibbs.Jonathan Swift publishes his bitterly satirical Gulliver's Travels.
Poet Alexander Pope produces an English language translation of Homer's Odyssey.
Poet Allan Ramsay opens the first circulating library in Edinburgh.
International
French writer Voltaire begins an exile in England which lasts three years.City of Montevideo is founded by the Spanish in Uruguay.
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