Balloon Ascending Near the Entrance to Lord's Cricket Ground, 1839

After Robert Bremmel Schnebbelie British

ca. 1839

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Balloon ascents were popular spectacles throughout the 19th century and often depicted by artists. Here, well-to-do men and women have come in carriages, and vendors and works stopped on their rounds, to watch Mr. Hampton's balloon straining at the ropes. The site is the St. John's Wood entrance to Lord's Cricket Ground, and the event took place on June 7, 1839.

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Title: Balloon Ascending Near the Entrance to Lord's Cricket Ground, 1839
Artist: After Robert Bremmel Schnebbelie (British, active 1803–49)
Date: ca. 1839
Medium: Watercolor
Dimensions: sheet: 5 7/8 x 7 5/8 in. (14.9 x 19.4 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Gift of Paul Bird Jr., 1962
Object Number: 62.696.14
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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