'The Vauxhall balloon of Mr. Green' Size:XXL: 150 x 100cm Two coachmen threaten each other

Two coachmen threaten each other with their whips while two women have fallen over a wheelbarrow

The market was badly damaged when the adjacent Hungerford Hall burned down in 1854

the dusky shrike

seated in a high-backed chair

Viscount Castlereagh

'The Vauxhall balloon of Mr. Green' Size:XXL: 150 x 100cm Two coachmen threaten each otherView of the Royal Vauxhall, later renamed Royal Nassau flown by the pioneering balloonist Charles Green (1785 1870). The balloon was inflated using coal gas and launched from sites that included Vauxhall Gardens in London. Plate from Animal locomotion or walking, swimming and, and flying, with a dissertation on aeronautics, by James Bell Pettigrew (Henry S. King & Co., London, 1873). James Bell Pettigrew (1832 1908) comparative anatomist, was elected