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Image number: RS.10231
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A balloon in flight
Date
1783
Creator
Anonymous (French) , Engraver
Object type
Library reference
38890
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 199mm
width (print): 120mm
width (print): 120mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Scene showing a decorated balloon in flight at Faubourg Saint-Antoine, France, on 19 October 1783. The balloon has a gallery or gondola for two passengers. Below can be seen a stepped platform with onlookers.
Plate 8 from the book Description des expériences de la machine aérostatiques de MM.de Montgolfier, by Faujas de Saint-Fond (Paris, 1783).
According to textual notes this balloon reached a height of 324 feet on the third in a sequence of flights and carried two aeronauts : Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier (1754-1785) and André Giroud de Villette. The launches took place near the home of
Jean-Baptiste Réveillon, (1725-1811) a French wallpaper manufacturer who decorated the balloons of the Montgolfiers brothers, including this example.
Plate 8 from the book Description des expériences de la machine aérostatiques de MM.de Montgolfier, by Faujas de Saint-Fond (Paris, 1783).
According to textual notes this balloon reached a height of 324 feet on the third in a sequence of flights and carried two aeronauts : Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier (1754-1785) and André Giroud de Villette. The launches took place near the home of
Jean-Baptiste Réveillon, (1725-1811) a French wallpaper manufacturer who decorated the balloons of the Montgolfiers brothers, including this example.
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