Engraved balloonist in wicker basket, with handwritten letter signed Nadar – Historic Print
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A window into the past: Engraved balloonist in wicker basket, with handwritten letter signed Nadar, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Engraved balloonist in wicker basket, with handwritten letter signed Nadar
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A balloonist standing in a wicker basket, shown in an engraving, is paired here with a handwritten letter signed by Nadar, the French photographer and aeronaut Gaspard-Félix Tournachon. Nadar took some of the earliest aerial photographs from a tethered balloon over Paris in 1858, and in 1863 he built Le Géant, a very large balloon that carried passengers across France. Ballooning drew wide public enthusiasm in 19th-century France, and the combination of an engraved scene with a personal signature links the printed image to one of the period's best-known figures in the field.
| Original scan | 3,166 × 5,000 px · prints to 11 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 02280u [Félix Nadar, half-length portrait, s |
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