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[Thomas Jefferson's sketch of 4 balloons] – Vintage Print

[Thomas Jefferson's sketch of 4 balloons], [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving
[Thomas Jefferson's sketch of 4 balloons], [no date recorded on caption card]. Antique engraving from the Presidents collection.

(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 antique engraving of [Thomas Jefferson's sketch of 4 balloons]. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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A pen sketch of four balloons, attributed to Thomas Jefferson in the title, sets this item apart from the usual portraits on the board. The record gives no date, and the attribution and medium are unverified, so both should be treated as provisional. The subject would fit Jefferson's years in Paris, when the Montgolfier brothers' hot-air flights of 1783 set off a ballooning craze across France. Jefferson followed the new aeronautics with real curiosity, which makes a drawing of balloons plausible for him.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 print : engraving?
NotesRobert Worth Turpin Collection. No ref. copy. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Pres.; Balloons.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,022 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-158352

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