A View of the Balloon of Mr. Sadler's Ascending
Object Details
- 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.
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Norfolk Charitable Trust
- Inventory Number
- A20140915000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- ART-Prints, Original
- Medium
- Print, Etching on Paper, Colored
- 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.)
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A20140915000
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv97825fdfe-db35-45a3-a163-2b53f79ff8d1
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