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John Bull making observations on the Comet (caricature)
John Bull, the spirit of Britain and its people, looks through his telescope to see a comet with Napoleon’s head rising towards the Sun containing the head of King George III. The land it has come from has a small frog on it.
Spying the French leader, John Bull mocks him, saying, ‘Aye - Aye - Master Comet - you may attempt your Periheliums - or your Devil heliums for what I care but take the word of an Old Man you'll never reach the Sun depend upon it’. Published on 10 November 1807, the print was produced while a comet was visible from England at the end of that year.
Spying the French leader, John Bull mocks him, saying, ‘Aye - Aye - Master Comet - you may attempt your Periheliums - or your Devil heliums for what I care but take the word of an Old Man you'll never reach the Sun depend upon it’. Published on 10 November 1807, the print was produced while a comet was visible from England at the end of that year.
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Object Details
| ID: | PAF3998 |
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| Collection: | Fine art |
| Type: | |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Rowlandson, Thomas; Woodward, George Murgatroyd |
| Date made: | 1807 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Sheet: 261 x 398 mm; Mount: 404 mm x 558 mm |