Trade card: Sparrow. - Bishopsgate, London, nd. [1823]. Engraving, on card; 7.5x5cm. Featuring balloon named SPARROW; inscription around top of balloon: Wholesale Ironmonger, Nail Manufacturer, Brassfounder, General Merchant & Exporter to all parts of the World. Aviators in gondola below balloon wave flags initialled respectively S and G. Isaac Earlysman Sparrow ascended in a balloon with the aeronaut Charles Green on 23 June 1823 in Oxford.
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- Art
- Object Number:
- 1946-99
- type:
- trade card
- taxonomy:
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- visual and verbal communication
- advertising card
- credit:
- Penn-Gaskell Collection
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