Embossed lace-style card with hand-colored balloon and passenger – Historic Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This historic image of Embossed lace-style card with hand-colored balloon and passenger brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. It brings character to any room and makes a memorable gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Embossed lace-style card with hand-colored balloon and passenger
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What sets this card apart is its surface: the paper is embossed to look like lace, and the balloon and its passenger were colored by hand rather than printed in flat tones. Decorative paper pieces like this were widely made and exchanged in Europe during the nineteenth century, often used to decorate albums, letters, and greeting cards. Ballooning was closely tied to France, where the Montgolfier brothers launched the first crewed hot-air flight in 1783, so an aerial scene on a French-linked card would have been a fashionable novelty for buyers of the period.
| Original scan | 5,000 × 2,985 px · prints to 17 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 02557u[Embossed card s |
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