A messenger to the moon [art original].

Description

Title: A messenger to the moon [art original].
Published / Created: [approximately 1783]
Publication Place: London
Abstract: A witch flying to the left on a broomstick and suckling a cat, discharges a blast of "inflammable air" towards a large sphere suspended midair behind her. A spectator standing below holds a torch to the stream of air and says, "How blue it burns!" Another man identified as a F.R.S. (Fellow of the Royal Society) stands to the right watching the scene and observes, "We shall now have a Lunatick Journal." Behind the Fellow of the Royal Society is another spectator identified as A.S.S. who boasts of having a ticket to Georgium Sidus (i.e., Uranus).
Description: Title from inscription in black ink in the artist's hand above image.
Date supplied by cataloger.
Print after image is described in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires / Mary Dorothy Georg, v. 4, no. 6335
For further information, consult library staff.
Provenance: Schatzki; October 1970.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 202 x 317 mm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1783
Ink drawings British 18th century
Wash drawings British 18th century
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: ink and brown wash ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Antiquarians
Balloons (Aircraft)
Witches
Spectators
Subjects: Antiquarians
Balloons (Aircraft) > 1780-1800
Witches
Spectators
England > 1783
British > 18th century

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Citation: A Messenger to the Moon. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.