The interior of the Pantheon, Oxford Street, London mb-artist I_Wood Figures and horse drawn vehicles

Figures and horse drawn vehicles can be seen in the street

Hackney Brook and St John's church

A busy street with domestic and commercial premises

Portrait of an elderly man with thinning grey hair and a rather stern expression

The interior of the Pantheon, Oxford Street, London mb-artist I_Wood Figures and horse drawn vehiclesThe interior of the Pantheon, Oxford Street, London, 1785. A view of the interior of the Pantheon, showing Mr Lunardi's Balloon as exhibited in 1784. Fashionably dressed figures stand underneath the balloon and on the balcony above. Vincenzo Lunardi successfully ascended from the Artillery Ground at Moorfields in this red and white silk hydrogen balloon and flew to Ware, Hertfordshire, in September 1784.