SELİM III

SELIM III.

THE REIGNING GRAND SEIGNEUR. AE.t 31.

Pain.d by Duchateau 1792… Engraved by NUTTER 1798.

London, Published May 1st 1798 by J. White Fleet Street…

20 x 12,5 cm.

SELİM III (1761-1808), Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1789 to 1807…His attemts at reform ended when the Janissaries deposed and imprisoned him…When a rescuing army approached Istanbul, Selim was stabbed, the only Ottoman Sultan to die by the sword…

Jean François Duchateau lived in Istanbul 1775-96 and painted many portraits of the Ottoman court…His oil of Selim III is now in Topkapı Sarayı Museum…