File:John Bull making observations on the Comet (caricature) RMG PW3998.jpg

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George Murgatroyd Woodward (artist) (artist); Rowlandson, Thomas (engraver)
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English: 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.

John Bull making observations on the Comet (caricature)
Date 1807
date QS:P571,+1807-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions Sheet: 261 x 398 mm; Mount: 404 mm x 558 mm
Notes Box Title: Caricatures 11. Political: artists S-W.
Source/Photographer http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/128133
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id number: PAF3998
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