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
c. 1801
Type
ART-Prints, Original
Medium
Print, Engraving on Paper, Colored
Physical Description
Hand-colored engraving of the descent of André Jacques Garnerin near the Temple de la Paix on the Champs-Elysées in honor of the ninth anniversary of the foundation of the Republic. A balloon is aloft with observers on the ground. A parachute is descending from the balloon.
'A Paris chez Basset Md. d'Estampes et Fabriquant de Papiers peints, rue St. Jacques au coin de celle des Mathurins No. 670.'
Dimensions
Mat: 40.6 × 50.8cm (16 × 20 in.)
Unmatted: 28.4 × 44.5cm (11 3/16 × 17 1/2 in.)
Inventory Number
A20140648000
Credit Line
Gift of the Norfolk Charitable Trust
Data Source
National Air and Space Museum
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