Sixteen numbered pen sketches of ballooning scenes with French captions – Vintage Print
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Sixteen numbered pen sketches of ballooning scenes with French captions
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Sixteen numbered pen sketches, each with a French caption, set this piece apart from the more familiar painted or photographed views of balloon ascents. The drawings follow the sport of ballooning from its early days in France, where the Montgolfier brothers flew the first crewed hot-air balloon in 1783 and aerial travel quickly became a public spectacle. Working in ink, the artist records launches, crowds, and aeronauts in small, quick scenes, and the numbering suggests a sequence meant to be read in order, like a set of plates in a book.
| Original scan | 2,373 × 3,542 px · prints to 8 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 02312u Sixteen vignettes |
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