• Print, Etching on Paper, Uncolored, THE ASCENT OF THE AEIRAL BALLOON
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    Uncolored etching of a crowd gathered in a town to watch the release of a balloon. The balloon has a basket tied to the bottom that contains a live sheep, rooster, and duck. Part of a pair with A20140402000. The balloon, a Montgolfier hot air vessel, is shown as a sealed gas balloon, and indication of the way in which an English engraver, who had never seen a balloon, imagined the scene. 'Engraved for the European Magazine. Published Nov. 1st 1783 by J. Fielding, Pater Noster Row, Great Britain.'

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Vanessa Nagengast

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10/24/2014

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National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

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