Display Status
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Object Details
Country of Origin
France
Type
ART-Prints, Original
Medium
Print, Etching on Paper, Colored
Artist
Louis Joseph Watteau
Physical Description
Partially colored etching of Blanchard's fourteenth ascent, accompanied by the Chevalier Lepinard, from Lille in Flanders on August 26, 1785. Image shows the balloon ascending from a large field with a crowd of the elite gathered to watch and with soldiers surrounding them. Other observers watch from outside the line of soldiers.
'Peint par L. Watteau, Professeur de l'Académie de Lille. Gravé par Helman, de la même Académie. Se vend à Lille chez L. Watteau. Rue et vis-à-vis l'Eglise St. Pierre, Par leurs tres Humbles, et tres Obeissants Serviteurs L. Watteau.'
Dimensions
2-D - Unframed (H x W): 39.4 × 50.8cm (15 1/2 in. × 20 in.)
Inventory Number
A20140872000
Credit Line
Gift of the Norfolk Charitable Trust
Data Source
National Air and Space Museum
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