Display Status
This object is not on display at the National Air and Space Museum. It is either on loan or in storage.
Object Details
Date
August 15, 1831
Type
ART-Prints, Original
Medium
Print, Aquatint on Paper, Colored
Physical Description
Colored aquatint of the New London Bridge at its opening ceremony on August 1, 1831. Scene shows the bridge lined with flags and numerous ships on the water going underneath. Crowds are also on shore watching the ceremony. A balloon flown by Charles Green is aloft in the distance.
'Published by Whittaker & Co in La Belle Assembleé. No. 82 (New Series) for Octr. 1832.'
Dimensions
Mat: 25.4 × 30.5cm (10 × 12 in.)
Unmatted: 19.7 × 27cm (7 3/4 × 10 5/8 in.)
Inventory Number
A20140551000
Credit Line
Gift of the Norfolk Charitable Trust
Data Source
National Air and Space Museum
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