Artist: Barrie Linklater (biography)
Medium: Pen & Ink Wash on Board
Size: 13" x 13" (330mm x 330mm)
Date: 1966

This is the unique original Pen & Ink Wash by Barrie Linklater.

During the Franco-Prussian war in 1870 an attempt to get letters from Paris to the provisional Government in Tours goes disastrously wrong when thanks to prevailing winds the balloon lands in Norway.

Barrie Linklater's illustration shows the balloon flying dangerously low over a German army camp shortly after leaving Paris.

Originally published in Look and Learn #234 9th July 1966.