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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury

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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury

by Simon Gribelin, after John Closterman
line engraving, published 1723 (circa 1700-1701)
7 in. x 3 7/8 in. (177 mm x 98 mm) plate size; 7 1/4 in. x 4 1/8 in. (183 mm x 105 mm) paper size
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Pilgrim Trust, 1966
Reference Collection
NPG D16247

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  • NPG D19087: Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (from same plate)
  • NPG D14157: Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (from same plate)

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Current affairs

Exiled Jacobite leader Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke is pardoned and allowed to return to London from Paris.
Workhouse Test Act under which poor relief claimants have to enter a workhouse.
Black Act makes poaching a capital offence.


Art and science

Architect Christopher Wren dies.
Artist Joshua Reynolds is born in Plympton, Devon.
Portrait-painter Godfrey Kneller dies.
Philosopher Bernard de Mandeville republishes his celebrated Fable of the Bees with new essays on charity and the nature of society. They are vigorously combated and made the subject of prosecution in 1729.


International

Holy Roman Emperor, Charles VI, agrees that Hungary shall be ruled as a separate kingdom within his empire.
Treaty of Charlottenburg signed between Britain and Prussia, which arranges for George I's grandson to marry a Prussian princess and Prince Frederick of Prussia to marry the Prince of Wales' daughter. It is never enacted.

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