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

Robert Bremmel Schnebbelie

ca. 1839 · Watercolor · Drawings and Prints

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.

Artist

Robert Bremmel Schnebbelie

Date

ca. 1839

Medium

Watercolor

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of Paul Bird Jr., 1962