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Artist
- Name:
- Robida, Albert
- Dates:
- 1848-1926
- Country:
- France
Illustration
- Subject:
- Buildings & monuments
- Technique:
- Wood engraving
- Format:
- Portrait (taller)
- Source:
- The Getty Research Institute, the Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- Le vingtième siècle
- Author(s):
- Robida, Albert
- Publisher:
- Paris: Georges Decaux, 1883
- Open Library:
- View record.
Description
On top of the two towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral a metal structure has been built to be used as docks for coming and going balloon-like aircraft shaped as fish. A large clock dominates the station, above which sits a two-story building housing a café and a restaurant.
The caption reads in the original French: Station centrale des aéronefs à Notre-Dame.
Keywords: 1880s, 19th century, airship, black & white, Europe, fantasy, France, Paris, retrofuturism, science-fiction