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Figure 2 Aeolis coronate

performing new songs

his left hand resting upon a paper or blotter

instead judges awarded marks in various categories including mechanical reliability

The River Thames and St Paul's Cathedral can be seen in the distance

Selim III, Ottoman Emperor mb-width 1614 Figure 2 Aeolis coronateSelim III, Ottoman Emperor, (1808). Selim (1761 1808) was Sultan from 1789 1807. Influenced by the events of the French Revolution, he embarked on a programme of westernisation and reform. Resistance from conservative elements culminating in an uprising by the Janissaries prompted him to abandon his reforms however. He was overthrown in 1807 and strangled by order of his successor, Mustafa IV. From A series of Portraits of the Emperors of Turkey, 1808.