'The Vauxhall balloon of Mr. Green' Engine room worker Cowley Hall

Cowley Hall

30th November 1962

A detail from this painting forms part of plate 1 of "The Thanatophidia of India: being a description of the venomous snakes of the Indian peninsula

This cartoon relates to the rumours in France that Pope Pius IX had threatened to excommunicate Louis Napoleon

View with Somerset House behind and to the left of the tower

'The Vauxhall balloon of Mr. Green' Engine room worker Cowley HallView 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