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Object Details
Country of Origin
Netherlands
Type
ART-Posters, Original Art Quality
Medium
Poster, Lithograph on Paper, Colored
Physical Description
Colored lithograph of a balloon aloft over a park with a man on trapeze suspended from the balloon. A crowd is watching from below. Top half of a larger poster advertising the ascent of the Balloon Estrella on September 1, 1888 in Amsterdam, featuring American air gymnast Mr. Atkinson performing gymnastic exercises while hanging from the balloon (bottom half is A20140899000).
'Jan. L.C. Kotting & Co. drukkers Amst.'
Dimensions
2-D - Unframed (H x W): 85.7 × 62.5cm (33 3/4 × 24 5/8 in.) Inventory Number
A20140898000
Credit Line
Gift of the Norfolk Charitable Trust
Data Source
National Air and Space Museum
Restrictions & Rights
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