Cigarette Card

Wills’s Cigarettes “Wonders of the Past” Cigarette Card #37 “The Colossus of Rhodes”

Produced in 1926 by W. D. & H. O. Wills.

Issued by The Imperial Tobacco Company (of Great Britain & Ireland) Ltd.

Text on reverse of card reads:

“The Colossus, the statue that has given its name to anything immense, was a vast image of Apollo, 100 feet high, standing beside the harbour of Rhodes in the Egean Sea, and ranking as one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Built of bronze in sections, and strengthened inside with masonry, it was designed and erected about 290 B.C. as a thank-offering for the deliverance of the city by Ptolemy Soter, king of Egypt, from a host of besieging Macedonians against whom it had held out for a year. The popular idea of the statue with legs astride across the harbour is false.”