'The Vauxhall balloon of Mr. Green' Engine room worker A detail from this painting

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

Greenwich Hospital surrounded by parkland

You done yer werry best to win

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

30th November 1962

'The Vauxhall balloon of Mr. Green' Engine room worker A detail from this paintingView 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