Rural sports. Balloon hunting [graphic].

"Three women fall from a gig, which has fallen backwards, the shafts broken under a heavy load. A fat man, losing hat and wig, holds the head of the kicking horse, at which a dog leaps fiercely. The women are his very fat wife and two comely daughters dressed for an outing; a parasol, bottle, and bundle in a knotted handkerchief lie beside them. The scene is a rough track over a heath. In the air is a balloon much tilted, a man and two flags are in the basket. A woman descends by parachute, surrounded by a flock of birds, with much display of leg, and a man watches her through a telescope from a high round tower which rises above a group of trees in the background (right)."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state