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Aylmer Bourke Lambert

10 of 236 portraits by T. Cadell & W. Davies

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Aylmer Bourke Lambert

by William Evans, published by T. Cadell & W. Davies, after Henry Edridge
stipple engraving, published 11 August 1801
17 1/8 in. x 11 7/8 in. (435 mm x 302 mm) paper size
Given by Ernest E. Leggatt, 1913
Reference Collection
NPG D37137

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  • T. Cadell & W. Davies (active 1795-1817), Publishers. Artist or producer associated with 236 portraits.
  • Henry Edridge (1769-1821), Portrait painter and landscape draughtsman. Artist or producer associated with 117 portraits.
  • William Evans (active 1797-1856), Draughtsman and engraver. Artist or producer associated with 103 portraits.

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  • NPG D37138: Aylmer Bourke Lambert (based on same portrait)

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Current affairs

Wlliam Pitt and Lord Castlereagh both resign over the King's refusal to permit the introduction of Catholic emancipation. Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth succeeds Pitt as Prime Minister.
Census records 9 million people living in England and Wales, 5.2 million in Ireland and 1.6 million in Scotland.

Art and science

Radical writer, Amelia Opie publishes her best known novel The Father and the Daughter. Said to have reduced Walter Scott to tears, it went on to enjoy success as an opera and a play.

International

Other members of the First Coalition fighting France with Britain agree to a humiliating peace treaty and Britain fights on alone.
A successful campaign is fought against the French army marooned in Egypt. General Sir Ralph Abercromby leads the troops but is killed in action.
Thomas Jefferson is elected President of the United States.

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