Two balloons rising above clouds, brown wash drawing – Vintage Wall Art
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Two balloons rising above clouds, brown wash drawing comes to life in this historic drawing, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Two balloons rising above clouds, brown wash drawing
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Two balloons drift upward through a bank of clouds in this brown wash drawing, a pairing that was less common than the single-balloon scenes that dominated early ballooning art. The French were the first to send people aloft, beginning with the Montgolfier brothers' hot-air balloon at Annonay in 1783 and Jacques Charles's hydrogen balloon in Paris later that year, so images of the sport from this period often carried a sense of national pride and wonder. Brown wash, built from layered diluted ink or paint, lets the artist suggest the soft volume of cloud and the glow of air with few lines. Look at how the balloons are left mostly open, with their forms emerging from the paper itself.
| Original scan | 3,438 × 2,469 px · prints to 11 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 02309u Ascension du 26 |
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