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Watercolour of a clock balloon above the Eiffel Tower – Antique Wall Art

Watercolour of a clock balloon above the Eiffel Tower — historic image
Watercolour of a clock balloon above the Eiffel Tower. Historic image from the Ballooning collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Watercolour of a clock balloon above the Eiffel Tower comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.

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Watercolour of a clock balloon above the Eiffel Tower

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A watercolour of a clock-shaped balloon drifting above the Eiffel Tower places this picture in Paris, where the tower rose in 1889 for the World's Fair and quickly became a favorite subject for artists and aeronauts alike. Ballooning had been part of French public life since the Montgolfier brothers' first crewed flights in 1783, and by the late nineteenth century balloons were a familiar sight over the city's rooftops and parks. Painting the tower alongside a whimsical, novelty airship offers a lighthearted take on modern Paris, with the iron lattice and the ornamental balloon sharing a single sky. The clock-face motif invites a closer look at how artists of the period played with the idea of time and invention.

Original scan3,669 × 5,000 px · prints to 12 × 17 in at 300 dpi
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