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Watercolor of a crowd in period dress watching a striped hot air balloon rise over an open field.

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A loose watercolor sketch by Myles Birket Foster, titled The Balloon, shows a crowd of spectators in period dress gathered on an open field, gazing up at a striped hot air balloon drifting in a pale sky. Men in top hats and women in bonnets and straw hats stand in the foreground, while small figures are scattered across the distance.

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