• Print, Lithograph on Paper, Colored, ACTUALITÉS. UNE ASCENSION EN AUTOMME: MR. THÉVELIN SE LIVRANT SUR SON TRAPÉZE Á UN EXERCICE AQUATICO-AÉRIEN.
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    Colored lithograph showing a man walking through a city during a rainstorm, while another man is flying on a trapeze above. A balloon is aloft in the background. Newsprint is on the reverse. This image was published in Le Charivari, on October 8, 1852. The title translates to: "An ascension in autumn: Mr. Thévelin launches himself into an aquatic-aerial exercise on his trapeze." Thevelin was a sportsman and acrobat.

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Vanessa Nagengast

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02/05/2015

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National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

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