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Prince Charles Edward Stuart

8 of 25 portraits by Sir Robert Strange

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Prince Charles Edward Stuart

by Sir Robert Strange
line engraving, circa 1749
10 3/4 in. x 7 7/8 in. (274 mm x 200 mm) paper size
Purchased with help from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Pilgrim Trust, 1966
Reference Collection
NPG D10748

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  • Sir Robert Strange (1721-1792), Line engraver. Artist or producer associated with 25 portraits, Sitter in 3 portraits.

Related worksback to top

  • NPG D9085: Prince Charles Edward Stuart (from same plate)
  • NPG D10746: Prince Charles Edward Stuart (from same plate)
  • NPG D10747: Prince Charles Edward Stuart (from same plate)
  • NPG D14257: Prince Charles Edward Stuart (from same plate)
  • NPG D10749: Prince Charles Edward Stuart (from same plate)

Events of 1749back to top

Current affairs

Royal Fireworks in Green Park to celebrate the Peace of Aix-La-Chapelle. 10,000 rockets are let off at a cost of £8,000. Composer George Frideric Handel's accompanying Music for the Royal Fireworks is performed for the first time.
George II is introduced to William Ansah Sessarakoo the 'Prince of Annamaboe'. The son of a wealthy chief from the West African Gold Coast, he had been taken prisoner and made a slave in the West Indies.

Art and science

Horace Walpole buys the house and grounds which he will transform into his neo-Gothic fantasy, Strawberry Hill, in Twickenham, London.
Henry Fielding publishes his comic novel Tom Jones.
John Cleland's erotic novel Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) is published. The author is released from debtor's prison but arrested again later in the year and charged with corrupting the King's subjects.

International

George II grants a charter to Ohio Company to settle Ohio valley in the American colonies.
British settlement of Halifax, Nova Scotia is founded.
Sugar planters found Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

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