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 Sadler and Captain Paget ascending in a balloon from the Mermaid Tavern, Hackney, on August 12, 1811. The print appears to have been reverse-adhered to a pane of glass, with mirroring and reverse glass painting around the edge of the paper. Newsprint in French adhered to the back of the frame.

Dimensions

2-D - In Frame (H x W x D): 44.5 × 34.6 × 1.3cm (17 1/2 × 13 5/8 × 1/2 in.)

Inventory Number

A20140915000

Credit Line

Gift of the Norfolk Charitable Trust

Data Source

National Air and Space Museum

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