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

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

Thomas Rowlandson

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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

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