Comet of 1742 orders adjoining the Queen's Head Tavern

adjoining the Queen's Head Tavern

Inscribed above: 'SUPPLEMENT TO THE GRAPHIC

Presenting a loyal address to Caroline of Brunswick during the governmental attempts to deprive her of her title and privileges and to dissolve her marriage to King George IV

A fashionably dressed man walking from Old Bond Street into Piccadilly encountering a courtesan

September 18

Comet of 1742 orders adjoining the Queen's Head TavernDiagram showing the geocentric motion of a comet [now designated C 1742 C1] using observations made 24 February 7 March 1742. The figure is headed 'A graphical construction of the comet's geocentric motion, determining its mean perigaeum' [perigee] Figure appended to a letter, Thomas Wright, St. James's, 7 April 1742, to the Honourable Mr. Yorke. Signed lower right 'Thos. Wright'. Thomas Wright was proposed as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1735,