Balloon Card Collector Series - Ballooning Art Design Gallery

Balloon Card Collector Series

Events in Ballooning History from 1783 to 1883

Notations on Balloon Cards:
No 1. The Montgolfier Brothers... (1883)
No 2. 1st aerostatic experiment has Annonay (1783)
No 3. Charles launches... to Paris the first airship (1783)
No 4. First air voyage... Pilâtre de Rozier and of Arlandes (1783)
No 5. First air voyage... by Charles and Robert (1783)
No 6. 1st test of direction of balloons... (1784 Guyton de Morveau)
No 7. Crossing in balloon of Pas-de-Calais by Blanchard and Jefferies (1785)
No 8. Fatal flight of Pilâtre de Rozier and Romain (1785)
No 9. Balloon pilots of the first Republic
No 10. Undertaking, balloon assembled by Coutelle... battles of Fleurus.

Events in Ballooning History from 1795 to 1846

Notations on Balloon Cards:
No 1. the Commander Coutelle with the head office of Mainz (1795)
No 2. Utopias of the aerial navigation at last century
No 3. Sebastien Lenormand makes the 1st experiment of the parachute, Montpellier (1783)
No 4. Descent of Jacques Garnerin in parachute (1797)
No 5. Gay-Lussac and Biot are 4,000 meters Height (1804)
No 6. The Balloon of the crowning of Napoleon
No 7. Fatal flight of Mrs. Blanchard (1819)
No 8. Zambeccari and his/her two companions in the Adriatic (1804)
No 9. Fatal flight of Harris (1824)
No 10. Arban is collected by Italian pècheurs (1846).

Original Artwork (Circa 1880 — 1900)

Summary: Proof sheets of two collector card series published by Paris : Romanet & cie in the late 19th century.
Original Media: Chromolithograph (The first true multi-color printing method).
Origin: Original proof sheets in LOC archives.

About This Series — Adaptations by Barbara Tomlin

The card adaptations are included in the Ballooning Art exhibit of my frameable art card collection. Other products are available from Ballooning Stuff, a CafePress store.