Aerial voyages over London Ashburnham Park, King's Road, Chelsea. – Historic Reproduction
![Aerial voyages over London Ashburnham Park, King's Road, Chelsea., [between 1867 and 1877] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/74/74005f97a625-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.)
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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Aerial voyages over London Ashburnham Park, King's Road, Chelsea.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Aerial voyages over London Ashburnham Park, King's Road, Chelsea.
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A London pleasure ground in Chelsea is the setting for this poster, which announces ascents from Ashburnham Park on King's Road on May 1 and daily thereafter, weather permitting, from 1 to 7 o'clock. The notice boasts of a "new steam captive balloon," a tethered craft that rose on a cable so that passengers could look over the city without leaving the ground. The poster points back to the Universal Exhibition of 1867 in Paris, where a similar balloon had drawn large crowds, so it shows how quickly such novelties traveled from the fairground to the London public. The colored woodcut and bold letterpress were typical of the commercial posters of the 1860s and 1870s.
| Created / published | [between 1867 and 1877] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : woodcut, color, with letterpress text. |
| Genre | Woodcuts Color 1860-1880.Posters 1860-1880. |
| Notes | Caption continues: May 1st and every day (weather permitting) from 1 till 7, with the immense and new steam captive balloon, constructed on the same system as that which acted with such success at the Universal Exhibition of 1867, in Paris. Bella C. Landauer collection. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1964:R1. |
| Subjects | Captive balloons--England--London--1860-1880. Stages (Platforms)--England--London--1860-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,690 × 4,564 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-223564 |
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