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A Consultation prior to the Aerial Voyage to Weilburg, 1836 NPG 4710

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Hollins

On 7 November 1836, Charles Green, the celebrated balloonist, Thomas Monck Mason, the author of Aeronautica, and Robert Hollond, the lawyer and MP, made an important voyage from London to Weilburg, in Nassau, Germany, in the Vauxhall balloon. The journey, a distance of about four hundred and eighty miles, took eighteen hours, a record not beaten for a voyage from England until 1907. Green, Mason and Hollond appear in the portrait grouped together on the right as if discussing the intended voyage. On the left... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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