Thaddeus Sobieski Constantine Lowe (1832–1913) was one of the great American aeronauts of the 19th century. On June 14, 1860, Lowe and William Paullin made flights in celebration of the visit of the Japanese Embassy to Philadelphia. Lowe stands to the far left in the print. Staff members of the Smithsonian’s Freer and Sackler Galleries date the print to 1867-1868, and indicate that the artist, Utagawa Yoshitori, who had never seen either a balloon or Philadelphia, based the buildings in the print on an Illustrated London News article on Agra, India. The very accurate image of Lowe (far left) in the print may have been based on a portrait published in Harper's Weekly (9/24/1859).