Ascent of Balloon from Burlington House, Piccadilly, from the Window at Mr. B. Palmer's
Date:
after 1812
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, brown ink, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 1/2 x 13 3/8 inches (24.1 x 34 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in brown ink, lower right: "Ascent of Balloon | from Burlington House | Picadilly from The Window | [?at] Mr [?B.] Palmer's opposite -after[...]"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1986.29.440
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
sky | architectural subject | genre subject | mansion | hot air balloon | balloon | floating | entertainment | house | windows
Associated Places:
Europe | England | United Kingdom | City of Westminster | London | Burlington House
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)
Publications:
Gemma Brace, Air Visualising the Invisible in British Art 1768-2017, Sansom & Co., Bristol, p. 21, fig. 8, N6764 .A57 2017 (YCBA)