Mountjoy Blount, 1st Earl of Newport

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Mountjoy Blount, 1st Earl of Newport

by Martin Droeshout, published by Thomas Jenner
line engraving, circa 1618-1628
4 5/8 in. x 2 7/8 in. (116 mm x 74 mm) paper size
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Pilgrim Trust, 1966
Reference Collection
NPG D43024

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Artistsback to top

  • Martin Droeshout (1601-1650?), Engraver. Artist or producer associated with 23 portraits.
  • Thomas Jenner (active 1621-1662), Printseller. Artist or producer associated with 23 portraits.

Related worksback to top

  • NPG D26586: Mountjoy Blount, 1st Earl of Newport (from same plate)
  • NPG D43025: Mountjoy Blount, 1st Earl of Newport (from same plate)

Events of 1618back to top

Current affairs

Francis Bacon, Viscount St Alban, is appointed Lord High Chancellor. He would be impeached for bribery three years later ending his political career.
Lord High Treasurer Thomas Howard, Earl of Suffolk, and his wife, Katherine, are charged with embezzlement and found guilty the following year.

Art and science

Jurist, politician and scholar, John Selden, publishes his History of Tythes, in which he concedes the legal right of the Church of England to collect tithes, but denies divine authority.
The Royal College of Physicians compiles the London Pharmacopoeia, a standard list of medicines and their ingredients.

International

Sir Walter Ralegh's voyage to Guiana tragically fails. Unable to find treasure, his attack against the Spanish settlement San Thomé, during which his son Walter dies, dangerously jeopardises Anglo-Spanish relations. Ralegh returns home and is executed for treason.
Start of the Thirty Years War, precipitated by the Bohemian Revolt.

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