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(RM) 609546478
ASCENT OF MR. COXWELL'S GREAT BALLOON FROM THE CRYSTAL PALACE GROUNDS, 1865. CREATOR: UNKNOWN.
Ascent of Mr. Coxwell's Great Balloon from the Crystal Palace grounds, 1865. 'Mr. Coxwell's balloon, named the Research...is composed of fifty gores, each gore being 44 in. wide at the centre and 105 ft. long. It contains about 112,000 cubic feet of gas...It had rained heavily during the afternoon...Mr. Coxwell remarks, "the lower cloud, one widespread mass, hung heavily over the Crystal Palace, and the tops of the towers were partially obscured...In less than one minute we were lost to sight...the rain ran down the sides of the balloon and covered us by shooting down the neck...in one of the darkest clouds I had ever passed through, it was evident we had entered the very fountain of rainfall...I observed a peculiar vibratory motion of the balloon and car, such as accompanies its passage from still air to an aerial wave of wind and storm. I inferred that we were either entering a fresh current or moving upwards with a spiral motion...On getting 3000 ft. elevation we decided that, as there was little enjoyment to be had, it was better to [look] for a landing-place...We alighted very gently on the grounds of Mr. Peter H. Desvignes, at Lewisham." That gentleman...gave Mr. Cox well and his companions a most hospitable and kindly welcome'. From "Illustrated London News", 1865. Ascent of Mr. Coxwell's Great Balloon from the Crystal Palace grounds, 1865. Creator: Unknown. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
(RM) 609544683
WRECK OF THE MAIL-STEAMER ATHENS IN TABLE BAY, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, 1865. CREATOR: UNKNOWN.
Wreck of the mail-steamer Athens in Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope, 1865. A '...tremendous storm...on the 17th of May...[wrecked a ship] belonging to the Union Steam Navigation Company...[She] was carried broadside upon the rocks, at Green Point, between the lighthouses...It was seven o'clock in the evening when she was driven upon the rocks, where she very rapidly broke up. The calls for help of those on board could be distinctly heard upon the shore, amid the roar of the breakers...for two hours a continued wail of anguish and appeals for help came from the steamer, which could occasionally be seen lying on the rocks, broken-backed, but still above water...About ten o'clock the cries ceased, and thick darkness gathered over the scene...Next morning two bodies were recovered, both very much bruised from pounding against the rocks, and both were stripped, with the exception of under-drawers, showing that, before taking their final plunge, the unhappy men had calmly prepared themselves for a last struggle for life...the master, Captain D. Smith, Dr. J. Heath Curtis, the medical officer...engineers, and twenty-five other persons, made up the list of the officers and crew; and there is no doubt that they all perished'. From "Illustrated London News", 1865. Wreck of the mail-steamer Athens in Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope, 1865. Creator: Unknown. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
(RM) 609540992
THE RAMSGATE LIFE-BOAT: MORNING AFTER A HEAVY GALE - WEATHER MODERATING...BY E.W COOKE. R.A., 1864 CREATOR: J GREENAWAY.
The Ramsgate Life-boat: Morning after a Heavy Gale - Weather Moderating - from the picture by E.W Cooke. R.A., 1864. Engraving of a painting. 'The crews of a pilot-boat and life-boat of Ramsgate, after hearing at daybreak signal-guns from the Goodwin floating light- vessel, have communicated with it, and now bear up for a water-logged Indiaman, the crew and passengers of which have perished during the night, when their boats were knocked to pieces. The Captain, who would not desert his ship, is rescued by the lifeboat just before the vessel founders on the North Sandhead of the Goodwin. The life-boat...is the Ramsgate "self-righting" boat, one built on the plan of those of the Life-boat Institution. This is the same boat which...performed a most important service by saving a hundred and twenty persons, being the whole of the crews and passengers of the emigrant-ship Fusilier, and the ship Demerara, wrecked on the Girdler Sands, off Margate... To be sixteen hours hard at work in the raging waves, fighting a December hurricane, while tons of water are now and then dashed over the boat, and the soaked clothes of the men are frozen stiff by the icy wind - that is a performance which we cannot sufficiently praise'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864. The Ramsgate Life-boat: Morning after a Heavy Gale - Weather Moderating...by E.W Cooke. R.A., 1864 Creator: J Greenaway. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
(RM) 609485710
A NOVEMBER DAY IN NANT-FRANCON, BY J. C. REED, IN THE EXHIBITION OF THE INSTITUTE OF..., 1864. CREATOR: MASON JACKSON.
A November Day in Nant-Francon, by J. C. Reed, in the exhibition of the Institute of Painters in Water Colours, 1864. Engraving of a painting. 'North Wales is the most favourite resort of the English painter as well as tourist...There are few views so magnificent as those afforded in this vale. Indeed, with the exception of Llanberis Pass, the finest gorge in the whole country is that formed by the enormous block of mountain of which Carneddau, Davydd, and Llewelyn, are the centres, seen on the spectator's right hand in the picture, and the still more savage and precipitous chain on the left intervening between Llyn Ogwen and Llanberis, and which at one point seems as if about to close over the pass and block it up. The name of Nant-Francon - "the Glen of Beavers" - recalls the ancient time when the stream of the Ogwen was a haunt of these strange creatures...The terrors of the scene depicted in Mr. Reed's fine drawing are aggravated by the snows and rains of early winter, which are already whitening the slopes of the mountains, hanging murkily in the sky, swelling the streams into angry, foaming cataracts, and imparting to the whole scene a deeper and more sombre aspect of desolateness'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864. A November Day in Nant-Francon, by J. C. Reed, in the exhibition of the Institute of..., 1864. Creator: Mason Jackson. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
(RM) 609484940
THE WAR IN AMERICA: FORT LAFAYETTE, THE FEDERAL BASTILLE FOR POLITICAL PRISONERS, 1862. CREATOR: SMYTH.
The War in America: Fort Lafayette, the Federal Bastille for political prisoners, 1862. 'The traveller to America who enters the beautiful harbour of New York...will observe, on the right hand in passing the channel known as "The Narrows," a solitary fort on an island at some distance from the shore...Our Engraving is taken from the water, near Staten Island...For the last fifteen months Fort Lafayette (like its sister forts in the harbours of Boston and Baltimore) [had] been filled with political prisoners...On the 27th of November, little more than three weeks after the triumphs of the Democrats in New York, it took the opportunity of "Thanksgiving," which is annually celebrated throughout the North on that day...to order the liberation of all political prisoners in Forts Lafayette, Warren, MacHenry, and Delaware. On that morning the gloomy gates wore opened and the prisoners were set free without stipulation or condition. Fort Lafayette at present contains only its customary garrison for the defence of the channel, and it is to be hoped will never again be employed for any less legitimate purpose...The fort is not of great value as a means of defence, having been almost superseded in utility by Fort Hamilton...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1862. The War in America: Fort Lafayette, the Federal Bastille for political prisoners, 1862. Creator: Smyth. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
(RM) 609484000
MOUNT EGMONT, IN THE PROVINCE OF NEW PLYMOUTH (TARANAKI), NORTH ISLAND, NEW ZEALAND, 1862. CREATOR: UNKNOWN.
Mount Egmont, in the province of New Plymouth (Taranaki), North Island, New Zealand, 1862. 'The snow-crested Apollo of mountains, Mount Egmont, or Taranaki...shoots up from a sea of forest 8000ft. into a brilliant sky. Although not the highest, it is certainly the most strikingly remarkable, mountain in New Zealand, and may be seen from a...distance of more than 100 miles. It rises in a perfect cone from a base thirty miles in diameter, and presents nearly the same appearance viewed from every point. Its summit, which is an extinct crater, is flattened; and it is covered with perpetual snow for nearly a quarter of its entire elevation...There are scarcely any outlying settlements in this province, the inhabitants being mostly concentrated in the village capital, and in a belt of farms, hamlets, and clearings lying around it within a circle of ten or a dozen miles. The district of Taranaki has been termed the garden of New Zealand; and, whether regard be had to the serenity of its climate or to the fertility of its soil, it is surpassed by no other locality in either island. This province has been of late, it is well known, the seat of war in New Zealand; and in our Engraving the Omata Stockade is shown, perched on the top of a hill'. From "Illustrated London News", 1862. Mount Egmont, in the province of New Plymouth (Taranaki), North Island, New Zealand, 1862. Creator: Unknown. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
(RM) 609482545
SUMMER, BY T. W. KEYL, IN THE EXHIBITION OF THE BRITISH INSTITUTION, 1864. CREATOR: PEARSON.
Summer, by T. [sic] W. Keyl, in the exhibition of the British Institution, 1864. Engraving of a painting. 'It is not merely that the picture has a careful and precise truth to nature which, though accompanied by a little hardness, is one of the best characteristics of a comparatively young or rising painter; but it has a feeling for general character in the animals and effect in the landscape which are of still happier augury. The scene of the picture is some elevated down of a pastoral district, which conceals a part of the middle distance, but allows the eye to wander over a long reach of flat remoter scenery. The rough foreground is dotted over with clumps of furze, long grasses, thyme, and other wild shrubs or flowers which perfume the bracing and health-giving air of our noble undulating downs. The sky is dappled with light, fleecy, sun-illumined cirrus and cirro-cumulus clouds, giving that endless variety to what may be called the "skyscape," and moderating the heat of the fair English summer season. One of the sheep, it will be observed, is a large black wether, and, like its companions, is - as any one might say who had something of the gourmet as well as the artist in his character - in splendid condition'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864. Summer, by T. W. Keyl, in the exhibition of the British Institution, 1864. Creator: Pearson. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
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