Title
Paulhan parcourt Les 298km sur son biplan Farman
Reference
YA1996.2635
Production date
1910 - 1910
Creator
- Montaut, MargueriteBiographyBiography
Marguerite Montaut was a French Impressionist and Modernist artist, and the wife of the French poster artist Ernest Montaut. Born in 1880, she was active in the years following her husband's death in 1909. Marguerite continued to produce posters in her husband's style, denoted by the signature GAMY, an anagram of her nickname Magy. She died in 1936.
Scope and Content
Colored lithograph print of a scene from Paulhan's flight from London to Manchester in his Farman biplane.
Physical description
Fair
Language
French
Archival history
Archive provenance unknown
Level of description
ITEM
Repository name
Science and Industry Museum
Associated people and organisations
- Paulhan, LouisBiographyBiography
French aviation pioneer, born Isidore Auguste Marie Louis Paulhan, in 1883. Paulhan was credited with bringing aviation to London in 1909, and is best known for winning the Daily Mail aviation prize for the first flight between London and Manchester in 1910.
Paulhan died in 1963 at St Jean de Luz, France, at the age of 79.
- Mabileau & CoBiographyBiography
Publisher of artistic works of art.
Subject
Conditions governing access
Open access.
Conditions governing Reproduction
Copies may be supplied in accordance with current copyright legislation and Science Museum Group terms and conditions.
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