John Wise, Aeronaut – Vintage Wall Art
![John Wise, Aeronaut, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/6a/6adbfd3fb0bf-L.webp)
(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
Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of John Wise, Aeronaut. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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John Wise, Aeronaut
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John Wise, the American aeronaut, is the figure this engraving sets out to present, and the print belongs to a board of ballooning images in which he appears as a central name. Wise (1808–1879) was a balloonist who promoted long-distance flight in the United States and proposed carrying mail and passengers across the Atlantic by balloon, an idea that drew wide public attention in the 1850s. The plate is an engraving by T.B. Welch made after a daguerreotype by M.A. Root, a combination that shows how portrait images moved from early photography into printed form. The caption card gives no date, so the exact year of publication remains unrecorded.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Notes | Engraving by T.B. Welch after dag. by M.A. Root. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 961 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-111849 |
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