Scrapbook of early aeronautica
A scrapbook of early aeronautica compiled by collector William Upcott, with later owners Robert Hollond and John Franklin Bruce Carruthers, dating from 1783 and held by the Smithsonian Libraries, documenting balloon ascents, aeronauts and parachuting. The single picture is a finely hatched engraved portrait of a stout man with curled hair, a white cravat and a double-breasted coat, shown in three-quarter view turned to the left. A designer could take from it the fine parallel-line hatching that models form and cloth folds with little more than line.
