The Grand Signior giving Audience to the English Ambassador

1 portrait by Robert Pranker

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The Grand Signior giving Audience to the English Ambassador

by Robert Pranker, after Francis Smith
etching, published 1769 (circa 1764)
15 3/8 in. x 18 7/8 in. (392 mm x 480 mm) paper size
Reference Collection
NPG D18007

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  • Robert Pranker (active 1761-1763), Engraver. Artist or producer associated with 4 portraits.
  • Francis Smith (circa 1705-circa 1779), Painter. Artist or producer associated with 2 portraits.

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  • NPG 3797: The Audience of the Grand Signor (A Sultan of Turkey receiving a British Ambassador) (after)

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Events of 1769back to top

Current affairs

Radical John Wilkes is expelled from Parliament once again, on the grounds that he was an outlaw when he was voted in. He is re-elected by his Middlesex constituents, then expelled and re-elected twice more, until Parliament declares his opponent, Henry Luttrell, the winner.
First of 69 anonymous Letters of Junius appears in the Public Advertiser, exposing political corruption. The politician Sir Philip Francis is now believed to have been responsible.

Art and science

Josiah Wedgwood opens his Etruria Works for the manufacture of pottery.
Inventor Richard Arkwright patents a spinning frame able to weave fabric mechanically.
Gordon's London Dry Gin is produced for the first time.
First Royal Academy exhibition is held.
Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage is first published.

International

Captain Cook observes the transit of Venus in Tahiti while his passengers, Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander, collect valuable specimens of Pacific flora. The expedition travels on to New Zealand where Cook begins charting the country's entire coastline.
Treaty of Madras ends the First Anglo-Mysore War but fails to settle dispute.
French inventor Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot tests a steam wagon, probably the first working mechanical vehicle.

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