Crowd watching a balloon ascent from a walled arena, lithograph – Historic Reproduction
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Step back in time with Crowd watching a balloon ascent from a walled arena, lithograph, an antique lithograph rich in period detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Crowd watching a balloon ascent from a walled arena, lithograph
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A large crowd fills the tiers inside a walled arena, all turned toward a balloon rising above them, and the scene captures the spectacle that made ascents such popular public events. France was the center of this excitement after the Montgolfier brothers' hot-air balloon carried the first human passengers aloft near Paris in 1783. Lithography, which was cheap and well suited to reproducing crowd scenes, let such events reach far more viewers than eyewitnesses. Look at how the artist arranged the spectators to convey both the size of the gathering and the sense of anticipation before liftoff.
| Original scan | 4,536 × 3,450 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 02480u Spectators in an arena |
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