XIR24982 Caricature on the 1811 Comet, c.1811 (coloured engraving) by French School, (19th century); Musee de la Ville de Paris, Musee Carnavalet, Paris, France; (add.info.: also known as \'The Great Comet\'; one of the few comets in history to be discovered with a relatively small telescope; at one point in the year, it reached a diameter roughly equivalent to the diameter of the sun and was highly visible;); French, out of copyright.