Le Tricolore: Aérostat de 800 mètres cubes, hand-colored balloon print – Antique Wall Art
(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: Le Tricolore: Aérostat de 800 mètres cubes, hand-colored balloon print, preserved in this historic print. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Le Tricolore: Aérostat de 800 mètres cubes, hand-colored balloon print
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The title names this balloon Le Tricolore and gives its capacity as 800 cubic meters, a figure that tells you the print was meant to document a specific craft rather than balloons in general. The name points to the red, white, and blue of the French national flag, colors that became the tricolor after the Revolution. Ballooning drew wide public enthusiasm in France from the 1780s onward, and printmakers often hand-colored engravings like this one so buyers could show the vessel's bright national colors. Looking closely at the hand-applied color is a good way to see how these images were made by hand and sold to a curious public.
| Original scan | 2,383 × 3,832 px · prints to 8 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 02486uLe tricolore |
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