A grand balloon ascent, Batty's, Thursday, July 1st, 1852 / Earle. – Vintage Wall Art
![A grand balloon ascent, Batty's, Thursday, July 1st, 1852 / Earle., [London : s.n., 1852] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c8/c87ae33adb9b-L.webp)
(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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Step back in time with A grand balloon ascent, Batty's, Thursday, July 1st, 1852 / Earle., a vintage poster rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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A grand balloon ascent, Batty's, Thursday, July 1st, 1852 / Earle.
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This 1852 poster advertises a balloon ascent at Batty's on Thursday, July 1, with doors opening at 5 and the launch set for 6 o'clock precisely, a timing the printed bottom margin stresses. Such ascents were popular paid spectacles in mid-nineteenth-century London, when crowds gathered to watch gas-filled balloons rise from enclosed grounds. The combination of a woodcut image with dense letterpress text was a common, inexpensive way to draw attention to these events. The poster comes from the collection of Gaston Tissandier, the French aeronaut and writer on ballooning, and it preserves the promotional style of the period.
| Created / published | [London : s.n., 1852] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : woodcut with letterpress text. |
| Notes | Doors open at 5 |
| Subjects | ascent at 6 precisely"--printed at bottom margin. Title from item. Tissandier collection." |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,274 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-207435 |
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