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Display Status

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Object Details

Type

ART-Prints, Original

Medium

Print, Etching on Paper, Colored

Physical Description

Colored etching of a group of comic characters trying to lift a small balloon via a pulley system. Two verses in French below the image, around a small scene of cherubs and butterflies flying around a balloon decorated to look like the Earth. Part of a series.

Dimensions

Mat: 40.6 × 33cm (16 × 13 in.)
Unmatted: 37.8 × 28.3cm (14 7/8 × 11 1/8 in.)

Inventory Number

A20140616000

Credit Line

Gift of the Norfolk Charitable Trust

Data Source

National Air and Space Museum

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