The Montgolsier [sic], a first rate of the French aerial navy [graphic]

"A Frenchman, in profile to the left, seated on a globe. To the globe are fixed vertical rods, the upper ends of which terminate in four smaller globes which are thus supported above the principal one; chains link these four globes to a fifth globe above, and slightly longer than, the other four. On this fifth globe is a child from whose bare posteriors six balls are being projected. On two (right) of the four globes are the heads of an ass, and of a man wearing a fool's cap; to their jaws are attached reins which are held by the Frenchman whose right hand is extended in the attitude of an orator. On the third globe is a monkey's head, which more resembles that of a sheep; the fourth globe is blank. The intention of the satire is explained by the inscription beneath the title, 'A F------t ------An Ass------ A Fool------A Monkey------A Nothing'. On the large globe on which the aeronaut sits is a cannon, its muzzle projecting upwards and to the left beyond the contour of the globe. In the centre is the winged head of a bald and bearded man in profile to the left. Below is the stern and part of the side of a man-of-war, with cannon projecting from port-holes."--British Museum online catalogue