Phillips, Watts, 1825-1874 :A prophecy for A.D. 3000! The New Zealand artist who has come to sketch the ruins of St Paul's / discovers the remains of a Great Ship near Deptford. vide Macaulay. / "Ere the Leviathan can swim a league,/ I'll put a girdle round the earth" / Shakespeare, Mids, Nights Dream, Act 2 Sc. 2 ' Watts Phillips del., J S Clay lith. London, published 1st Septr 1858, by Ackermann & Co., 106, Strand

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Phillips, Watts, 1825-1874 :A prophecy for A.D. 3000! The New Zealand artist who has come to sketch the ruins of St Paul's / discovers the remains of a Great Ship near Deptford. vide Macaulay. / "Ere the Leviathan can swim a league,/ I'll put a girdle round the earth" / Shakespeare, Mids, Nights Dream, Act 2 Sc. 2 ' Watts Phillips del., J S Clay lith. London, published 1st Septr 1858, by Ackermann & Co., 106, Strand

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Shows a conjectural drawing of the overgrown wreck of the huge paddlesteamer "Great Eastern", previously named the "Leviathan" in its planning stages. On a rowboat in the right foreground, three tourists survey the wreck. In the sky at top right, an aircraft called "The Aerial Omnibus, from New Zealand direct", hovers, with its passengers viewing the site. The title refers to Thomas Babington Macaulay's 1840 "Essay on 'The Ecclesiastical and political history of the Popes of Rome', by Leopo...

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Image

Date created

1858 - 18/03/1908

Creator

Clay, J S, active 1858

URL

http://natlib.govt.nz/records/23202146

Locations

Deptford

Related subjects

Macaulay, Thomas Babington (Sir), 1800-1859 / Ships / England / Tourists / Future life in art / Aeroplanes / Aeronautics / Prophecies / Deptford

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