File:Original air balloon (BM 1868,0808.5070).jpg
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editOriginal air balloon
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Title |
Original air balloon |
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Description |
English: The ascent of a circular balloon, inscribed "America", is watched by spectators; there are two passengers in its basket. The names of the persons are shown by numbers referring to notes in the upper margin.
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Depicted people | Representation of: James Aitken | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1783 date QS:P571,+1783-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Current location |
Prints and Drawings |
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Accession number |
1868,0808.5070 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) 'John the Painter' was James Aitken, who set fire to the rope-house in Portsmouth dockyard (Dec. 1776) and to a warehouse at Bristol (Jan. 1777). His aim was to destroy the shipping and dockyards of England to ensure victory for America. He propounded his scheme to Silas Deane, the American envoy in Paris, and obtained some encouragement from him and a false French passport. He was executed at Portsmouth on 10 March 1777. A pamphlet in doggerel verse, 'John the Painter's Ghost', was published in 1777 attacking Lord Temple for his share in obtaining a confession from Aitken. Deane afterwards acted as a British agent (1781), see 'Corr. of George III', v. 200, &c. The only unfavourable representation of Washington in the collection, and one of the few satires hostile to the Americans, cf. BMSat 5329, 5401. For balloons see BMSat 6333, &c. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5070 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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