Display Status
This object is not on display at the National Air and Space Museum. It is either on loan or in storage.
Object Details
Date
September 5, 1785
Type
ART-Prints, Original
Medium
Print, Etching on Paper, Uncolored
Artist
Thomas Rowlandson
Physical Description
Uncolored etching showing a man with torn clothing and a walking stick with a crumpled balloon tied to his back. Eight lines of verse printed below the image describing the man as a balloonist begging for money to pay for gas to fill his balloon. The figure is apparently a caricature of Vincenzo Lunardi.
Dimensions
Mat: 40.6 × 33cm (16 × 13 in.)
Unmatted: 38.4 × 27.6cm (15 1/8 × 10 7/8 in.)
Inventory Number
A20140614000
Credit Line
Gift of the Norfolk Charitable Trust
Data Source
National Air and Space Museum
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