Spectators watch balloon ascents in a green printed landscape – Historic Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Spectators watch balloon ascents in a green printed landscape, preserved in this historic print. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Spectators watch balloon ascents in a green printed landscape
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Spectators crowd a open green field in this scene, craning their necks toward a balloon rising above them, a detail that sets it apart from pictures that show the balloon alone. Ballooning drew large public audiences in France from the late eighteenth century, when the Montgolfier brothers' hot-air flights of 1783 turned ascents into major public spectacles. Crowds gathered at launch sites on fair days to watch the gas and hot-air craft lift off, and prints like this one recorded the excitement of those outings for viewers who could not be there. The printed landscape behind the crowd is worth a close look, since it shows how such events were framed for a broad audience.
| Original scan | 3,300 × 2,607 px · prints to 11 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 02571u Spectators watch the balloon |
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