King Edward I
1 portrait of King Edward I
© National Portrait Gallery, London
King Edward I
after Unknown artist
stipple engraving, published 1804
6 1/2 in. x 4 1/2 in. (164 mm x 113 mm) plate size; 11 1/4 in. x 8 3/4 in. (285 mm x 221 mm) paper size
Given by Mary S. Draper, 1937
Reference Collection
NPG D16607
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Current affairs
William Pitt returns to office and forms a second coalition administration, retaining many of those who had served under his predecessor Henry Addington but specifically excluding his arch rival Charles James Fox .Art and science
William Blake starts writing Jerusalem. One of his most ambitious allegorical poems, it took nearly eight years to complete.Amidst infighting about submissions to the annual exhibition, attempts are made to unseat painter Benjamin West as President of the Royal Academy and elect architect James Wyatt instead.
International
Napoleon declares himself Emperor of France and is crowned as Napoleon I by Pope Pius VII in Paris.Haiti achieves independence led by Toussaint L'Ouverture, the patriot and martyr who had seized control from the French in 1801. He becomes a symbolic figure of freedom for the British anti-slavery movement.
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