Aerostatic vessel or aeronaut – Historic Reproduction
(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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This rare historic print captures Aerostatic vessel or aeronaut in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Aerostatic vessel or aeronaut
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The title pairs the aerostatic vessel, the gas balloon itself, with the aeronaut who flew it, so the print looks at both machine and pilot. Balloon flight was still a novelty in 1827, some forty-odd years after the first crewed ascents in France in 1783, and it drew crowds to public launches. Etchings like this one carried news of the sport to readers who could not attend, mixing scientific interest with spectacle. It survives as an illustration in a broadside collection, a sign of how such images circulated as cheap printed material.
| Created / published | 1827 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : etching. |
| Subjects | Ref. copy may be in SSF(Gr) - AERONAUTICS--HISTORY--1827. Illus. in: Broadside Coll., Portfolio 117-5. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,306 × 1,500 px · prints to 8 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-119141 |
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