Up in a balloon. – Vintage Wall Art
(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.)
Description
Up in a balloon. comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Printed around 1870 as a tobacco package label, this lithograph bears the title "Up in a balloon" and a copyright notice in the name of A. Seemuller. Ballooning was a popular spectacle in the later 1800s, with aeronauts drawing crowds at fairs and exhibitions, and commercial printers often borrowed such novelties to catch a buyer's eye. Labels like this one had to read quickly on a crowded shelf, so the image is built around a single playful idea. It shows how a tobacco wrapper could also carry a small piece of popular entertainment.
| Created / published | c1870. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Tobacco package labels 1870.Lithographs 1870. |
| Notes | LOT subdivision subject: Balloons Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by A. Seemuller. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 829 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-118902 |
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