Selim III, Ottoman Emperor Finish:Rolled View of the Invercauld Bridge

View of the Invercauld Bridge over the River Dee near Braemar

Thousands know this view at Whitley Bay and seldon grow tired of it

But today experts decided that Lonnie himself was a very smart man

presented to the Royal Society by the author on 26 October 1709

Selim III, Ottoman Emperor Finish:Rolled View of the Invercauld BridgeSelim 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.