Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

James Glaisher; Henry Tracey Coxwell NPG x22561

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Negretti & Zambra

On 5 September 1862 the intrepid balloonists and meteorologists Glaisher and Coxwell ascended from Wolverhampton in their gas balloon to a height of 37,000 feet, the greatest height ever reached by balloon. Glaisher lost consciousness and Coxwell, who had lost the use of his hands, managed just in time to pull the valve-cord with his teeth, and brought the balloon down at Ludlow, dropping 19,000 feet in fifteen minutes.
This tiny photograph almost certainly commemorates the record-breaking ascent, and is an example of the inventive... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.