Balloon Ascending Near the Entrance to Lord's Cricket Ground, 1839
After Robert Bremmel Schnebbelie British
Not on view
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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