Pension Bellevue airship hotel drawing with 'Cures'Air' balloon – Vintage Wall Art
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Few images capture their era like this historic drawing of Pension Bellevue airship hotel drawing with 'Cures'Air' balloon. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Pension Bellevue airship hotel drawing with 'Cures'Air' balloon
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The drawing imagines a hotel carried aloft rather than anchored to the ground, with a balloon labeled "Cures'Air" promising guests a course of fresh air in the sky. The name plays on the French *cure d'air*, a fashionable treatment in which invalids and city dwellers were sent to breathe clean country or mountain air, so the joke turns a medical habit into a floating resort. France, and Paris especially, had been the center of ballooning since the Montgolfier brothers' first crewed hot-air flight in 1783, and by the late 1800s aerial travel was a popular subject for illustrators. The sketch is worth a closer look for how it treats the airship as a serious commercial idea while poking fun at both health fads and faith in new technology.
| Original scan | 3,809 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 02297u |
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