One fan, in gilt frame, with carved ivory sticks. Painted scene showing Charles and Robert balloon. ht 28cm opening to 51cm.
A ballooning scene depicted on a fan made with carved ivory sticks. The painted scene, in a gilt frame, shows a Charles and Robert balloon floating in the background, with a man and a woman large in the foreground. Jacques Charles was a French professor of physics who launched the first free ascent of an unmaned hydrogen-filled balloon on 27th August 1783. Later, he and Robert became the first men to be carried aloft in a hydrogen balloon (in free flight) on 1st December 1783.
Details
- Category:
- Penn-Gaskell Collection
- Object Number:
- 1946-120
- Materials:
- ivory
- type:
- fans (costume accessories), depictions, balloons and hot-air balloons
- credit:
- Penn-Gaskell Collection
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