The first Turkish Ambassador in 18th century London
Among the “memorable events during the year 1793”, in between references to the turbulent incidents in post-revolutionary Republican France, including the execution of King Louis XVI, The Times newspaper listed, as the last article, the arrival of the Turkish Ambassador at Dover in December. It was indeed a memorable event, since Yusuf Agâh Efendi (1744-1824) was the first resident Ottoman envoy to be sent to the court of St James’s by the Sublime Porte and his arrival in Britain was highly anticipated. On the 220th anniversary year of this historic event the Turkish music historian Dr Emre Aracı traces the steps of the Ottoman ambassador in 18th century London through a kaleidoscope of concerts, dinners, processions, firework displays and balls from Theatre Royal, Covent Garden to the celebrated Ranelagh and Vauxhall Gardens.
Publication Year: 2013
Number of pages: 60
ISBN: 978-605-4642-18-2
6 Introduction
Emre Aracı
8 “The Turkish Ambassador lands at Dover”
11 “A great and curious present”
14 “There are no ladies in his suite”
16 Arrival in London
18 Royal Hotel, Pall Mall
22 Covent Garden Theatre
25 Coffee at Downing Street
27 Ranelagh and Vauxhall Gardens
29 “Everyone has the freedom to speak”
31 “The most interesting of all the diplomatic corps in London”
33 1 Bryanston Square
34 A day in Turkey
37 “By Desire of His Excellency the Turkish Ambassador: A Musical Tale, called Amurath the Fourth”
38 The Ambassdor’s portrait sittings
41 Musleiman Adeti
43 The Chief Secretary’s Arrows
44 “Turkish Ambassador’s Public Entry”
49 Gold pistols, daggers and chests of silks
50 London Turquerie fashion
53 The Turkish Ambassador’s Grand March
56 Haydn’s Anglo-Turkish Military Symphony
59 “Perfect friendship & good understanding”
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Panoramic Gaze on Istanbul, a History
Photographs From and Around Göbeklitepe
The Story of Stories
Works from the Nobel Collection
Photographs of the Anatolian Shore of the Bosphorus from the mid 19th to the 20th Century
Photographs of the Rumeli shore of the Bosphorus from the mid 19th to the 20th century
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