Untitled View of Balloon from Observatory Hill, Greenwich
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Object Details
- Physical Description
- Oil painting on wood panel of a balloon aloft over London as viewed from Observatory Hill, Greenwich. Foreground shows people walking the grounds of the Observatory and watching the balloon. In 1852, John Welsh of the Kew Observatory made a series of scientific ascents with Charles Green. James Glaisher is supposed to have witnessed the last of those flights through a telescope from the observatory at Greenwich.
- Newspaper advertisement from February 1918 pasted to back of frame. Shows a photograph of a painting titled 'A View from Observatory Hill, Greenwich' by Thomas Shotter Boys that was being sold by Chas. J. Sawyer Ltd. The painting in the advertisement is of the same view as this one, but it is unclear if it is by the same artist.
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Norfolk Charitable Trust
- c. 1874
- Inventory Number
- A20140920000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- ART-Paintings
- Medium
- Painting, Oil on Wood Panel
- Dimensions
- 2-D - In Frame (H x W x D): 59.1 × 71.1 × 5.1cm (23 1/4 in. × 28 in. × 2 in.)
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A20140920000
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv92e992d9d-170d-4d9f-adca-83a689332205
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