Exhibition at Bullock's Museum of Bonaparte's Carriage Taken at Waterloo
Thomas Rowlandson British
Publisher Rudolph Ackermann, London British
Not on view
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.
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