Free parachute descent

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

Collection

Science Museum

Inventory Number

3026287

Title

Free parachute descent

Object Type

PhysicalObject

Measurements

- frame: 570 mm x 435 mm x 50 mm; image [sight]: 380 mm x 245 mm