Aerostatic vessel or aeronaut – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Aerostatic vessel or aeronaut
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An 1827 etching titled "Aerostatic vessel or aeronaut" focuses on the balloon and the person who flew it, using the period term for a craft that rose because it was lighter than the surrounding air. Balloon ascents had drawn crowds for about four decades by then, since the Montgolfier brothers flew in France in 1783, and printed images like this helped audiences picture both the machines and their pilots. The catalog record rests on an old caption card and has not been verified, so the exact maker and intended purpose remain uncertain. Even so, the sheet offers a useful glimpse of how early aeronautics was presented to the public.
| Created / published | 1827 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : etching. |
| Subjects | Ref. copy may be in SSF(Gr) - AERONAUTICS--HISTORY--1827. Illus. in: Broadside Coll., Portfolio 117-5. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 999 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-119141 |
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