Object Details
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.
Credit Line
Gift of the Norfolk Charitable Trust
Date
c. 1874
Inventory Number
A20140920000
Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
Type
ART-Paintings
Medium
Painting, Oil on Wood Panel
Dimensions
2-D - In Frame (H x W x D): 59.1 × 71.1 × 5.1cm (23 1/4 in. × 28 in. × 2 in.)
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Data Source
National Air and Space Museum
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nasm_A20140920000