Print, Engraving on Paper, ALBERT TISSANDIER AND GASTON TISSANDIER

Engraving on paper. Untitled, 1885. Double portrait of French balloonists, Albert Tissandier and brother, Gaston Tissandier. Figures are in an oval shaped frame and are turned in a quarter profile view. Flora and ribbon decorate the top of the frame and clouds surround edges and bottom. Two balloons the "Zenith" and the "Jean Bart" hang on either side of the oval frame, and an unmarked airship flies below. Bottom of print in lower right-hand corner has been autographed by the Tissandier brothers for Dr. John Jeffries, who made the first crossing of the English Channel with Jean Pierre Blanchard in 1785.