The Engraving Copyright Act 1734 (8 Geo.2 c.13) is an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain passed in 1734 to give protections to producers of engravings.

It is sometimes called Hogarth's Act after William Hogarth, whose work had prompted the law.

Historian Mark Rose notes, "The Act protected only those engravings that involved original designs and thus, implicitly, made a distinction between artists and mere craftsmen. Soon, however, Parliament was persuaded to extend protection to all engravings." (Rose, Mark. Technology and Copyright in 1735: The Engraver's Act. The Information Society, Volume 21, Number 1, January-March 2005. pp. 63-66.)

This Act is the first of the Copyright Acts 1734 to 1888.

Oglethorpe returns to England in June 1734 with goodwill ambassadors in the persons of Yamacraw chief Tomochichi, Senauki, his wife, their nephew Toonahowi, and six other Lower Creek tribesmen.

The Indians are regarded as celebrities, feted by the Trustees, interviewed by the king and queen, entertained by the archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth Palace, and made available to meet the public.

All but two of them pose with a large number of Trustees at the Georgia office for the painter William Verelst.

One of the absent Indians dies of smallpox, despite the ministrations of the eminent physician Sir Hans Sloane, and is buried by his grieving comrades in the burial plot of St. John's in Westminster.

After performing their social obligations, the Indians become tourists, visiting the Tower of London, St. Paul's Cathedral, Oglethorpe's Westbrook Manor, and Egmont's Charlton House, and enjoying a variety of plays, from Shakespearean dramas to comic farces.

The Indians depart on October 31, 1734.

With them go fifty-seven Salzburgers to join the forty-two families already in Georgia at Ebenezer.