'The Vauxhall balloon of Mr. Green' Company of Haberdashers Millbank Prison

Millbank Prison

The old master paintings have lined up in ranks on the left

The allegorical figure of Time is a satire concerning Hogarth's belief that art connoisseurs only valued paintings for their age

4th Duke of Hamilton (1658-1712)

'The Vauxhall balloon of Mr. Green' Company of Haberdashers Millbank PrisonView 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