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Object details:

Title: Experience de la Machine Aréostatique de Mrs Montgolfier d'Annoai en Vivrais.
Smithsonian Record ID: edanmdm:nasm_A20140388000

	Title
	Experience de la Machine Aréostatique de Mrs Montgolfier d'Annoai en Vivrais.

	Metadata Usage
	Not determined

	Guid
	http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv903f0d079-8985-4d45-9b12-3cfe146b91ef

	Data Source
	National Air and Space Museum

	Medium
	Print, Etching on Paper, Colored

	Dimensions
	2-D - Unframed (H x W): 33 × 47cm (13 in. × 18 1/2 in.)

	Dimensions
	2-D - In Frame (H x W x D): 48.3cm × 62.2cm × 3.8cm (19 in. × 24 1/2 in. × 1 1/2 in.)

	Physical Description
	Colored etching of crowds gathered in Paris to watch the takeoff of a balloon. Text in French and German on bottom. French text in reverse on top, indicating that the print was meant to be viewed in a zograscope.

	Physical Description
	The printed caption is incorrect. The print shows the first flight of a small gas balloon by J.A.C. Charles on 27 August 1783. This is not a Montgolfier flight as the printed information indicates.

	Country of Origin
	France

	Credit Line
	Gift of the Norfolk Charitable Trust

	Inventory Number
	A20140388000

	Type
	ART-Prints, Original

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