File:John Bull Making Observations on the Comet (NAPOLEON 138).jpg

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English: John Bull Making Observations on the Comet   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
English: Woodward, George M., 1760-1809 (artist) and Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 (engraver)
Title
English: John Bull Making Observations on the Comet
Description
English:

The drawing shows John Bull looking through a telescope. Napoleon appears as the head of a comet, streaking towards the sun which has the head of George III as its center. A frog climbs up the land mass from which Napoleon was launched.

In 1807, the British were preoccupied with worries about Napoleon invading England. Here the caricaturist discounts that worry when he has John Bull comment that no matter what Napoleon tries in his attempts to defeat England, he will never succeed.

Readers would recognize the comet analogy and perhaps even the term "perihelium" (a mispelling of perihelion, the point of a comet's orbit that comes closest to the sun), since a comet had been visible during the autumn and winter of 1807.

Reference source: George #10769

  • Geographic coverage: France
  • Subjects (LCSH): Political cartoons; History--Caricatures & cartoons; Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815; George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
Date 1807
date QS:P571,+1807-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium
English: Etching, hand colored ; plate mark 24 x 34 cm. on sheet 25 x 35 cm.
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
University of Washington: Special Collections
Accession number
138
Place of creation Cheapside, London
Inscriptions
Caption on Image:
JOHN BULL MAKING OBSERVATIONS ON THE COMET
Woodward Delin
London Printed for Tho. Tegg 111 Cheapside 10th Nov 1807
Rowlandson scul
Price one Shilling Coloured

Dialogue:
[John Bull] Aye--Aye--Master Comet--you may attempt your Periheliums--or your Devilheliums for what I care but take the word of an Old Man you'll never reach the Sun depend on it.
Source/Photographer
English: Napoleonic Period Collection
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Public domain

The author died in 1827, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.
Publisher
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Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845
Digital ID Number
InfoField
NAP018
UW Reference Number
InfoField
E7

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