Drawing of a balloon with crowds and horsemen in a landscape – Historic Reproduction
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Step back in time with Drawing of a balloon with crowds and horsemen in a landscape, a historic drawing rich in period detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Drawing of a balloon with crowds and horsemen in a landscape
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Here a crowd gathers in an open landscape around a balloon, with horsemen riding among them, so the scene is less about the craft alone than about the spectacle of an ascent in front of onlookers. Ballooning drew large crowds in Britain from the late 1780s, when the first hot-air and hydrogen flights turned the launch into a public event, often sold as paid entertainment in fields and parks. Drawings like this one record how such outings looked to the people who came to watch, with the balloon, the spectators and the surrounding countryside all shown together. Its details of dress, horses and gathering are worth studying for what they reveal about the social side of early flight.
| Original scan | 3,683 × 5,000 px · prints to 12 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 02285u [The 'Aerostatic globe |
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