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