Travelling Balloon – Vintage Wall Art
(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 antique engraving of Travelling Balloon brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Travelling Balloon
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The wood engraving *Travelling Balloon*, dated 1834, presents the balloon as a means of transport rather than a spectacle of ascent. It was printed in *Mechanics' Magazine*, a London weekly aimed at engineers and skilled workers, in volume 4 that year, on page 274. During the 1830s, ballooning drew wide public interest, and technical writers often debated whether balloons could ever be steered, a question that stayed unresolved for decades. The print is a useful record of how that hope was pictured for readers of the period.
| Created / published | 1834 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Mechanics Magazine, v. 4, 1834, p. 274. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Balloons; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 984 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-131569 |
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