Object Details
- Physical Description
- Vanity Fair caricature of Alberto Santos-Dumont in his Number 6 airship. Man dressed in c.1900 fashion (white striped shirt, dark vest, red cravat, boater hat, upturned moustache) in tight-fitting balloon basket from the waist down. Man manages controls for the airship with his left hand and gestures with his right. Propeller mounted to basket behind man, everything is supspended from a long, skinny tan balloon pointed at both ends. "Santos Dumont No 6" written on balloon. Proportions distorted typical of caricature.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Thomas A. Knowles
- Inventory Number
- A20000725000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- ART-Prints, Original
- Medium
- Lithograph on paper, colored
- Dimensions
- 2-D - In Frame (H x W x D) (reddish brown frame): 57.5 × 43 × 3.2cm, 2.3kg (1 ft. 10 5/8 in. × 1 ft. 4 15/16 in. × 1 1/4 in., 5lb.)
- Country of Origin
- France
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- Location
- National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC
- Exhibition
- Wright Brothers & The Invention of the Aerial Age
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A20000725000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9cd3ac46c-3a17-46bf-9fc7-ff4bd66938f9
