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Painting. [Free parachute descent] / nd. [c.1888]. Oil on board, [sight] 38x24.5cm in gilt frame, 57x43.5x5cm. Artist unknown. Parachute drawn in detail over thinner background paint; lower part of picture more impasto; thin line scored in paint across lower part. - Depicts one of Thomas Sackett Baldwin's demonstrations at Alexandra Palace, London, in 1888 - 28 July or later. A man is suspended from a parachute high above landscape, silhouetted against evening light glow, to l. a red-orange moon, and in distance below, a clouded, yellow-red sky; he holds above him the lower rim of the chute, with no visible means of support
Details
- Category:
- Art
- Object Number:
- 1958-122
- Materials:
- oil paint on board
- Measurements:
-
overall: 580 mm x 450 mm x 70 mm,
frame: 570 mm x 435 mm x 50 mm,
image [sight]: 380 mm x 245 mm
- type:
- oil painting
- credit:
- C H Gibbs-Smith
