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Object Details
Date November 7, 1843 Type ART-Prints, Original Medium Print, Etching on Paper, Uncolored Artist John Hollins
 Physical Description Uncolored etching of John Hollins, Sir William Millbourne James, Thomas Monck Mason, Walter Prideaux, Robert Holland, and Charles Green engaged in discussion around a table with a map. They are discussing an aerial voyage from London to Weilberg. Charles Green, accompanied by Robert Holland, who financed the flight, and Monck Mason, ascended from Vauxhall Gardens at 1:30 p.m. on November 7, 1836. They crossed the channel at Dover that evening, and landed at 7 a.m., November 8, at Weilburg, Nassau, Germany, having travelled altogether about five hundred miles in eighteen hours. This print is engraved by J.H. Robinson and based on a painting by John Hollins that is now in the National Portrait Gallery in London. 'Painted by J. Hollins, A.R.A. Engraved by J.H. Robinson. Hon. Member of the Imperial Academy of St. Petersburgh. London, Published for the Proprietor, by Henry Graves & Co. Printsellers to the Queen & H.R.H. Prince Albert, 6, Pall Mall, Nov. 7, 1843.' Dimensions 2-D - Unframed (H x W): 30.3 × 34cm (11 15/16 × 13 3/8 in.)
 Inventory Number A20140782000 Credit Line Gift of the Norfolk Charitable Trust Data Source National Air and Space Museum Restrictions & Rights Usage conditions apply
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