George Tooke

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George Tooke

after an engraving by Edmund Marmion
pen and ink and wash, (circa 1652)
6 7/8 in. x 5 in. (177 mm x 129 mm)
Reference Collection
NPG D6658

Sitterback to top

  • George Tooke (1595-1675), Soldier and writer. Sitter in 2 portraits.

Artistback to top

  • Edmund Marmion (active 1650-1652). Artist or producer associated with 2 portraits.

Events of 1652back to top

Current affairs

Politician, Sir Henry Vane, the younger, in promoting English liberties on Scotland rather than pursing its annexation, achieves its nominal consent for inclusion to the emerging republican commonwealth.

Art and science

Nicholas Culpeper, herbalist and astrologer, publishes The English Physitian. Extensively illustrated, Culpeper book written in the tradition of astrological medicine, lists native medicinal herbs indexed to common diseases.
Architect, Inigo Jones dies at Somerset House.
Clergyman, Peter Heylyn, publishes Cosmographie, a comprehensive description of the known world.

International

First Anglo-Dutch war, fought entirely at sea, erupts principally over trade disputes. General at Sea, Robert Blake, leads the navy in the first encounters against the Dutch navy commanded by Lieutenant-Admiral Maarten Tromp.
Oliver Cromwell's Act of Settlement of Ireland imposes death penalties and confiscates land from Irish Catholics.

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