Barrie Linklater

Artist: Barrie Linklater
Medium: Gouache on Board
Size: 11" x 15" (290mm x 375mm)
Date: 1975

This is the original Gouache painting by Barrie Linklater.

Dr. John Jeffries had a notion of performing a feat that would very much upstage the French: a crossing of the English Channel by balloon. Of course, the balloon would be piloted by a Frenchman, M. Blanchard, and in fairness it had to fly the flags of both nations.

The two balloonists began their flight on the early afternoon of 7 January 1785, flying in a hydrogen balloon with a boat-shaped gondola to provide some insurance in case they went into the drink. They almost did, but by throwing everything they could overboard to keep aloft they made it to the French shore, where they were both received as heroes. From an unknown issue of Look and Learn.

This art has been sold and is shown in our Archive for interest.
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