Hand-colored engraving of a balloon with an open-frame gondola – Vintage Wall Art
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This antique engraving of Hand-colored engraving of a balloon with an open-frame gondola brings a moment of history to your wall. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Hand-colored engraving of a balloon with an open-frame gondola
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Balloon flight was a French invention, and this hand-colored engraving shows the open-frame gondola slung beneath a spherical envelope, the basic arrangement that early aeronauts in France adopted within a few years of the Montgolfier brothers' first public flights in 1783. Engravings like this one were often colored by hand so that buyers could see the bright fabrics and rigging that black-and-white plates could not convey. Worth noticing is the gondola itself, a simple wicker or wood basket with no enclosed cabin, which left passengers exposed to wind and weather but gave them room to move ballast and handle the valve.
| Original scan | 2,339 × 3,952 px · prints to 8 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 02495u [Balloon with open fra |
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