Exhibition at Bullock's Museum of Bonaparte's Carriage Taken at Waterloo

Rudolph Ackermann, London|Thomas Rowlandson

January 10, 1816 · Hand-colored etching · Drawings and Prints

Bullock's Museum, or The Egyptian Hall at 22 Piccadilly, allowed Londoners to view sensations such as the Hottentot Venus, Polish dwarf, Irish giant and Napoleon's carriage. Built by Goeting, the latter had been taken after the Battle of Waterloo, on June 18, 1815, by Major von Keller, who sold it to the British Government. Once Wlliam Bullock acquired and exhibited the carriage, he made 35,000 pounds from ticket sales. The carriage later belonged to Madame Tussaud's but was destroyed by fire in 1925.

Artist

Rudolph Ackermann, London|Thomas Rowlandson

Date

January 10, 1816

Medium

Hand-colored etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959