Mrs. R-ss The aerial traveller. [graphic]

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Title: Mrs. R-ss The aerial traveller. [graphic]
Alternative Title: Aerial traveller
Mrs. Ross
Contributor: Hamilton, Archibald, -1792, publisher.
Published / Created: Decr. 1, 1784.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd by A. Hamilton Junr. Fleet Street
Abstract: Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of a Mrs. Ross and Vincenzo Lunardi who made the first hot air balloon ascent in England
Description: Titles from text below images.
From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and country magazine, 1784, page 569.
Provenance: Gift of Joseph Verner Reed (Yale 1926) to the Yale Library, 1958. Portions were transferred to Lewis Walpole Library 1960. For other items from this gift refer to Beinecke Library's GEN MSS 1000.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 10.4 x 18.1 cm, on sheet 13 x 22 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait prints
Periodical illustrations
Stipple engravings England London 1784
Material: engraving & stipple engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Lunardi, Vincent, 1759-1806,
Subject (Topic): Balloonists
Subjects: Lunardi, Vincent, 1759-1806
Balloonists
England > London > 1784

Access: Public
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