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BALLOON SCENE

Creator(s): Schmalholz (Artist) , T. C. Schleich (Publisher)

On view in: Ladies Powder Room


About this object

A scene of a balloon in mid-air over a landscape, balloon with green and white stripes, red ropes, two pale blue banners projecting from gondola, two shields and anchor below. Small figure of a man in pink jacket standing in door of gondola, on ground to right a man in profile waving a hat, next to him a figure with back turned in hat and cape, near a fence post, and diagonal railing, open field and clump of trees to left.

Object name:
BALLOON SCENE
Made from:
Paper
Made in:
Augsburg, Germany
Date made:
Late 18th c.-Early 19th c.
Size:
34.3 × 25.2 cm (13 1/2 × 9 15/16 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:
55.52
Class:
ENGRAVING
Signature marks:
INSCRIPTION at lower left: Schmalholz fec.; under: Wahre Abbildung Der jenigen Luft Maschine in Welcherder Hochfurth Thurn u Taxischen. He Hofrath Tof: max: Freyhe v Lutgendorf in Augsburg bey guter Witterung Aufsteigen wird. Verlegt in Augsberg von T.C. Schleich L.H.N. 383
Credit line:
Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973