Comet of 1742 orders A fashionably dressed man walking

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

'Hot Cross Buns

adjoining the Queen's Head Tavern

Inscribed above: 'SUPPLEMENT TO THE GRAPHIC

County Hall is under construction on the South Bank in the background

Comet of 1742 orders A fashionably dressed man walkingDiagram 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,