Natives of Tornea Lapmark,Enontekis,Launching the 1st Balloon,Arctic Circle,1819

Title: The natives of Torneä Lapmark, assembled at Enontekis to witness the launching the first balloon within the Arctic Circle / E.D. Clarke delt. ; R. Pollard sculpt.
Date Created/Published: London : published by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, Jany. 1, 1819.
Summary: Print shows a balloon ascending at Enontekis, Lapland. A man sitting on the roof of a store house is holding a pole from which the balloon had been suspended; another man holds a stick burning at one end from generating the heat to inflate the balloon. Many Laplanders in foreground watch the balloon ascension while reindeer, frightened by the balloon, scamper off.
Notes:
Illustration from: Clarke, Edward D. Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia, and Africa. London, T. Cadell and W. Davies,1819, v. 5, pt. 1.
Landauer Collection of Aeronautical Prints and Drawings.
This record contains unverified, old data from from A.G. Renstrom, LC staff, 1981-82.
Dollfus 62; Drogheda 27.
Subjects:
Balloons (Aircraft)--1810-1820.
Engravings--1810-1820.
Bookmark /2012646024/
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