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Henrietta Howard (née Hobart), Countess of Suffolk when Mrs Howard

by John Faber Jr, after J. Peters
mezzotint, circa 1725-1750
13 1/2 in. x 9 7/8 in. (344 mm x 252 mm) paper size
Given by Sir Herbert Henry Raphael, 1st Bt, 1913
Reference Collection
NPG D20091

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  • John Faber Jr (circa 1695-1756), Engraver and portrait and miniature painter. Artist or producer associated with 818 portraits.
  • J. Peters. Artist or producer associated with 3 portraits.

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  • NPG D4335: Henrietta Howard (née Hobart), Countess of Suffolk when Mrs Howard (from same plate)
  • NPG D6902: Henrietta Howard (née Hobart), Countess of Suffolk when Mrs Howard (from same plate)

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Current affairs

Notorious 'Thief Taker General' Jonathan Wild is hanged at Tyburn. He ran one of the most successful gangs of thieves of the era, while appearing to be the nation's leading policeman.
Pardoned Jacobite leader Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke forms an opposition to the Prime Minister Robert Walpole.
Order of the Bath is founded by King George I.

Art and science

Poet Alexander Pope produces a new edition of Shakespeare, which he rewrites and edits in numerous places.
Philosopher Francis Hutcheson publishes his first major work An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue, published in two treatises concerning aesthetics and morality.

International

Russian tsar Peter the Great dies.
Treaty of Hanover between England, France and Prussia.
Composer Antonio Vivaldi debuts the set of violin concertos known as The Four Seasons.
Composer Johann Sebastian Bach debuts his Easter Oratorio in Leipzig.

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