Smithsonian Institution
______________________
Asset Name:
media:NASM-7F2868B160D92_001

File Usage:

Not determined
There are restrictions for re-using this media. For more information, visit the Smithsonian's Terms of Use page at https://www.si.edu/Termsofuse


______________________
Object details:

Title: A Consultation previous to an Aerial Voayage from London to Weilburg, Novr. 1836.
Smithsonian Record ID: edanmdm:nasm_A20140412000

	Title
	A Consultation previous to an Aerial Voayage from London to Weilburg, Novr. 1836.

	Metadata Usage
	Not determined

	Guid
	http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9d8decc1c-e709-4735-8ace-c17fc9dedea3

	Data Source
	National Air and Space Museum

	Artist
	John Hollins

	Medium
	Print, Etching on Paper, Colored

	Dimensions
	2-D - Unframed (H x W): 42.5 × 61cm (16 3/4 in. × 24 in.)

	Physical Description
	Colored etching of John Hollins, Sir William Millbourne James, Thomas Monck Mason, Walter Prideaux, Robert Holland, and Charles Green engaged in discussion around a table with a map. They are discussing an aerial voyage from London to Weilberg.

	Physical Description
	Charles Green, accompanied by Robert Holland, who financed the flight, and Monck Mason, ascended from Vauxhall Gardens at 1:30 p.m. on November 7, 1836. They crossed the channel at Dover that evening, and landed at 7 a.m., November 8, at Weilburg, Nassau, Germany, having travelled altogether about five hundred miles in eighteen hours. This print is based on a painting by John Hollins that is now in the National Portrait Gallery in London.

	Country of Origin
	Great Britain

	Credit Line
	Gift of the Norfolk Charitable Trust

	Inventory Number
	A20140412000

	Type
	ART-Prints, Original

______________________