Come See the Fat Boy
by Vintage Pix
Title
Come See the Fat Boy
Artist
Vintage Pix
Medium
Drawing - Drawings
Description
Antique broadside announcing a festival at Vauxhall Gardens, London, England, dates to around 1841. Includes a list of the events and scheduled performances, including the release of the balloon "Fat Boy." "A great personage will make his first appearance at any place of amusement this evening--the renowned Fat Boy! and, inflated ... he will pay his respects ... and becoming a day balloon, will bid adieu to terra firma, ascending head-foremost to the infinity of space ... it is formed to travel about 100 miles."
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February 19th, 2017
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