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

Type

ART-Prints, Original

Medium

Print, Etching on Paper, Colored

Physical Description

Colored etching of the opening of the New London Bridge on August 1, 1831. Boats with observers are on the water, and the bridge and boats are lined with flags. A balloon is aloft in the sky above the bridge.
'Published by R.H. Laurie No. 53, Fleet Street, London.'

Dimensions

2-D - Unframed (H x W): 34.3 × 48.3cm (13 1/2 in. × 19 in.)
2-D - In Frame (H x W x D): 48.3cm × 62.2cm × 3.8cm (19 × 24 1/2 × 1 1/2 in.)

Inventory Number

A20140708000

Credit Line

Gift of the Norfolk Charitable Trust

Data Source

National Air and Space Museum

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