Snapshots of the Past

Hot air balloon above vineyard and villa garden – Historic Reproduction

Hot air balloon above vineyard and villa garden — historic image
Hot air balloon above vineyard and villa garden. Historic image from the Ballooning collection.

(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 Hot air balloon above vineyard and villa garden, a historic image rich in period detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.

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Hot air balloon above vineyard and villa garden

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A hot air balloon drifts over a vineyard and the walled garden of a villa, a pairing that suggests the flight was made from or near a country estate. Balloon views like this one were prized because they offered a bird's-eye look at the land below, showing how fields, rows of vines and formal gardens were laid out in patterns that ground-level travelers rarely saw. Ballooning became a popular spectacle in the late 1700s and grew into a sport and a form of aerial photography and painting over the next two centuries. Look closely at the garden beds and vine rows to see how the landscape was organized from above.

Original scan3,504 × 2,332 px · prints to 12 × 8 in at 300 dpi
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