A balloon in flight theatre manager Chinese scene

Chinese scene

Stephen Mardenborough

View with a horse-drawn wagon and a man pushing a handcart

hold an alms dish between them

'The Real Ugly Rush'

A balloon in flight theatre manager Chinese sceneScene showing a decorated balloon in flight at Faubourg Saint Antoine, France, on 19 October 1783. The balloon has a gallery or gondola for two passengers. Below can be seen a stepped platform with onlookers. Plate 8 from the book Description des expriences de la machine arostatiques de MM. de Montgolfier, by Faujas de Saint Fond (Paris, 1783). According to textual notes this balloon reached a height of 324 feet on the third in a sequence of flights