[Dirigible balloon flying French flag] – Historic Reproduction
![[Dirigible balloon flying French flag] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/dd/ddc0169344a4-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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This antique lithograph of [Dirigible balloon flying French flag] brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Dirigible balloon flying French flag]
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This lithograph shows a dirigible airship flying the French tricolor, a detail that ties it to France's early work on steerable balloons. The record gives only the broad date "18--," but the style and subject point to the later decades of the 1800s, when French engineers led efforts to make airships controllable rather than simply drifting with the wind. Henri Giffard's steam-powered airship of 1852 and Charles Renard and Arthur Krebs's *La France* of 1884 were among the milestones that drew public attention. Prints like this one helped spread the excitement and national pride surrounding the new technology.
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
|---|---|
| Notes | [18--] |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,200 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-121952 |
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