Balloon descending on a rocky shore with fleeing sheep – Historic Print
(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: Balloon descending on a rocky shore with fleeing sheep, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Balloon descending on a rocky shore with fleeing sheep
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A balloon settling onto a rocky shore, with sheep scattering across the stones, shows a landing that early aeronauts often faced: coming down in unfamiliar country with startled livestock nearby. France led the field from the first public flights in 1783, when the Montgolfier brothers launched hot-air balloons and Jacques Charles followed with a hydrogen craft later that year. Scenes like this one helped the public picture ballooning as a new way to travel, one that could bring a craft down almost anywhere, including the coast. The title does not name a specific location, so the scene is best read as a typical encounter of the period.
| Original scan | 3,789 × 2,769 px · prints to 13 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 02481uDescente du ballon le |
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