EXPÉRIENCE DU GLOBE AËROSTATIQUE DE MM. LES FRERES ROBERT AU JARDIN DES THUILERIES
Creator(s): Unknown (Artist) , Esnauts et Repilly (Printer)
On view in: Ladies Powder Room
About this object
The balloon is wider than high with pale blue, pink and yellow vertical stripes. In the gondola are three figures, one in a blue coat waving a pink flower-like object, another holding a banner, two more banners on either side of gondola which is draped with three pink and blue swags. Below is a crowd of people standing in the Jardin des Tuileries.
- Object name:
- EXPÉRIENCE DU GLOBE AËROSTATIQUE DE MM. LES FRERES ROBERT AU JARDIN DES THUILERIES
- Made from:
- Hand-colored etching on paper
- Made in:
- Paris, France
- Date made:
- 1784
- Size:
- 34.6 x 25.4 cm (13 5/8 x 10 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 55.49
- Class:
- HAND COLORED ETCHING
- Signature marks:
- INSCRIPTION At top: Bon Voyage; At bottom: Experience du Globe Aerostatique de MM les Freres Robert au Jardin des Thuileries...Le Dimanche 19 7bre 1784.; A Paris chez Esnauts et Rapilly, rue St. Jacques à la Ville de Coutances?
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973