Canute or Cnut 'the Great'

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Canute or Cnut 'the Great'

by George Vertue
line engraving, published 1732
11 5/8 in. x 7 3/4 in. (296 mm x 197 mm) plate size; 13 7/8 in. x 9 1/8 in. (351 mm x 231 mm) paper size
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Pilgrim Trust, 1966
Reference Collection
NPG D9368

Sitterback to top

  • Canute or Cnut 'the Great' (994?-1035), King of Denmark and of Norway, King of England 1018-1035. Sitter associated with 8 portraits.

Artistback to top

  • George Vertue (1683-1756), Engraver and antiquary. Artist or producer associated with 865 portraits, Sitter in 7 portraits.

Related worksback to top

  • NPG D9367: Canute or Cnut 'the Great' (from same plate)

Events of 1732back to top

Current affairs

Secession Church formed in Scotland.
Widespread fraud and abuses in the customs service revealed. Prime Minister Robert Walpole responds with the Excise scheme, under which the tariff on wine and tobacco is to be replaced by an excise tax.
British Hat Act limits manufacturing in the British colonies, forcing colonists to buy imported British-made goods.

Art and science

Frederick, Prince of Wales attends a fancy-dress ball at Vauxhall Gardens, initiating its supremacy as London's most fashionable meeting place.
William Hogarth produces the first prints of A Harlot's Progress, having completed the painted series the previous year.
The original Covent Garden Theatre Royal (now the Royal Opera House) opens.

International

Austrian composer Franz Joseph Haydn is born.
Georgia in the American colonies is granted to a group of British philanthropists, to give debtors a new start in life.

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