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Object details:

Title: Tiberius Cavallo, F.R.S.
Smithsonian Record ID: edanmdm:nasm_A20140626000

	Title
	Tiberius Cavallo, F.R.S.

	Metadata Usage
	Not determined

	Guid
	http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv987018a29-6df7-4411-a961-938190cfbf3b

	Data Source
	National Air and Space Museum

	Medium
	Print, Stipple Engraving on Paper, Uncolored

	Dimensions
	Mat: 30.5 × 25.4cm (12 × 10 in.)

	Dimensions
	Unmatted: 13.3 × 10.2cm (5 1/4 in. × 4 in.)

	Physical Description
	Uncolored stipple engraving of a portrait of Tiberius Cavallo (March 30 1749 – December 21 1809). Tiberius Cavallo (also Tiberio) came to London from Naples in 1779, was admitted to Royal Society in 1781, and wrote on electricity magnetism and pneumatic chemistry. He was the author of an early history of ballooning in English, "The History and Practice of Aerostation" (1785), and speculated as to the use of hydrogen to achieve buoyant flight before the Montgolfiers or Charles. Image shows him from the chest upwards in front of a plain background.

	Physical Description
	"Trotter, Sculpt."

	Credit Line
	Gift of the Norfolk Charitable Trust

	Inventory Number
	A20140626000

	Type
	ART-Prints, Original

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