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This object is not on display at the National Air and Space Museum. It is either on loan or in storage.
Object Details
Date c. 1874 Type ART-Paintings Medium Painting, Oil on Wood Panel 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. Dimensions 2-D - In Frame (H x W x D): 59.1 × 71.1 × 5.1cm (23 1/4 in. × 28 in. × 2 in.)
 Inventory Number A20140920000 Credit Line Gift of the Norfolk Charitable Trust Data Source National Air and Space Museum Restrictions & Rights Usage conditions apply
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