The Photographer Charles Clifford: balloons and horses

Authors

  • Rachel Bullough Ainscough CEU San Pablo University, Madrid

Keywords:

Charles Clifford, fotografía, vuelo aerostático, caballo, globo,

Abstract

British photographer Charles Clifford (1819-1863) appears for the first time in press advertisements in Madrid in 1850, not, surprisingly, as a photographer but as a balloonist who announces several balloon shows including one in which he states his intention to ascend on the back of a live horse hanging from the basket. Using British and Spanish newspapers as a bibliographical reference, this article studies the relationship between Clifford and ballooning, shedding some light on the motives behind his short-lived career as an aeronaut as well as this curious and original advertisement.

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Author Biography

Rachel Bullough Ainscough, CEU San Pablo University, Madrid

Profesora colaboradora de inglés especializado en el Departamento de Filología de la Facultad de Humanidades y C.C de la Comunicación.

References

Fontanella, Lee. (1999): Clifford en España. Un fotógrafo en la corte de Isabel II. Madrid, El Viso.

Holmes, Richard. (2013): Falling Upwards. London: Williams Collins.

Kurtz, Gerardo, F. (1999): ‘Charles Clifford, aeronauta y fotógrafo, Madrid: 1850-1852’. In Fontanella, L: Charles Clifford, fotógrafo de la España de Isabel II. Madrid: El Viso.

Sircos, A et Pallier, Th. (1876): Histoire des Ballons et des Ascensions Célébres avec une préface de Nadar. París: F. Ray. (Available from: gallica.bnf.fr/Bibliothèque Nationale de France)

Tissandier, Gaston. (1887). Histoire des Ballons v.i. París: H.Launette & Cie. (Available from: Smithsonian Libraries digital collections: http://library.si.edu/collections)

Tissandier, Gaston. (1887), Histoire des Ballons v.ii . París: H. Launette & Cie. (Available from: Smithsonian Libraries digital collections: http://library.si.edu/collections)

Wordsworth, William. (1919). The Complete Works II (1798-1800). Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Co. (Available from: https://www.archive.org)

Newspapers

La Patria (1851: January 17)

El Clamor Público (1850: November 18)

(Available from: BNE: Hemeroteca Digital, http://www.bne.es/es/Catalogos/HemerotecaDigital)

Cork Examiner (1850: September 20)

Lancaster Gazette (1852: June 12)

London Daily News (1850: July 11)

London Evening Standard (1850: September 16)

The Era (1848: August 13/20)

The Era (1849: August 12 and October 28)

The Era (1850: June 23, July 13/21)

The Morning Post (1828: August 2)

The Morning Post (1849: June 22)

The Morning Post (1850: September 16)

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Published

2016-11-23

How to Cite

Bullough Ainscough, R. (2016). The Photographer Charles Clifford: balloons and horses. index.Comunicación, 6(1), 251–264. Retrieved from https://indexcomunicacion.es/index.php/indexcomunicacion/article/view/266

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Vol. 6 No. 1 (2016): Ordinario 2016

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