Failed air trip by A. Hopman (plate II), 1804, The Year 1804 !!! (title on object), Chaos in the notary office where Abraham Hopman and Louis Samuel Loude have their will drawn up. Their women are tearing their hair out, children are crying on the floor. In the background are the unsuccessful attempts to fill the hot air balloon with hot air on the Overtoom in Amsterdam on July 5, 1804. Pictures of previous failed hot air balloon flights hang on the walls. A vessel equipped with a cannon, rudder, flags and a barometer hangs from the ceiling. On July 5 and 6, 1804, Hopman and Loude

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