Elizabeth Canning

1 portrait by Thomas Bowles Jr

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Elizabeth Canning

by Louis Philippe Boitard, published by Thomas Bowles Jr, published by John Bowles
line engraving, published 27 May 1754
9 7/8 in. x 7 3/4 in. (250 mm x 198 mm) paper size
Given by Sir Herbert Henry Raphael, 1st Bt, 1913
Reference Collection
NPG D19865

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  • Louis Philippe Boitard (active 1734-1760). Artist or producer associated with 10 portraits.
  • John Bowles (1701?-1779), Printseller and publisher. Artist or producer associated with 118 portraits.
  • Thomas Bowles Jr (1689 or 1690?-1767), Printseller and publisher. Artist or producer associated with 37 portraits.

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Current affairs

Death of the Prime Minister Henry Pelham. He is succeeded by his brother Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle.
General election increases the Whig party's majority

Art and science

Scottish chemist Joseph Black identifies carbon dioxide.
Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce (Society of Arts) is established in London.
Designer and cabinet-maker Thomas Chippendale publishes his first catalogue of furniture.
Philosopher David Hume's expansive and best-selling six-volume History of Great Britain begins publication.

International

Albany Congress: the British colonies negotiate with the native-American Iroquois in the face of the French threat in the Ohio valley. Benjamin Franklin proposes that the colonies should unite to form a colonial government. The pro-union woodcut he publishes of a snake cut into eight pieces, entitled 'Join or Die', becomes America's first political cartoon.
George Washington kills ten French troops at Fort Duquesne.

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