Blanchard te's Gravenhage in 1787
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Object Details
- Physical Description
- Colored etching of a balloon aloft over a city with a figure in the gondola. Only the balloon is colored. The etching has been adhered to a larger paper.
- Uncolored photocopy of a similar engraving from the Holland Express attached to mat behind the etching. Caption for the copy says, 'De ballon van Blanchard te's-Gravenhage [the Hague] 1787.'
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Norfolk Charitable Trust
- Inventory Number
- A20140495000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- ART-Prints, Original
- Medium
- Print, Etching on Paper, Colored
- Dimensions
- Mat: 30.5 × 25.4cm (12 × 10 in.)
- Engraving: 22.7 × 16.5cm (8 15/16 × 6 1/2 in.)
- Copy: 14 × 10.5cm (5 1/2 × 4 1/8 in.)
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A20140495000
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9ea7c7a67-6d03-4110-b818-169394dc1c08
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