Grand aerostatic ascent. : The nobility, gentry, and the public are most respectfully informed that the Sieur Krous, having at length succeeded in obtaining a ground for the above experiment, it will positively take place on Monday, July 3, 1815, at the Angel Gardens, Lambeth Walk, (late Chapman's) near Vauxhall, ... .

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Lewis Walpole Library > Grand aerostatic ascent. : The nobility, gentry, and the public are most respectfully informed that the Sieur Krous, having at length succeeded in obtaining a ground for the above experiment, it will positively take place on Monday, July 3, 1815, at the Angel Gardens, Lambeth Walk, (late Chapman's) near Vauxhall, ... .

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Title: Grand aerostatic ascent. : The nobility, gentry, and the public are most respectfully informed that the Sieur Krous, having at length succeeded in obtaining a ground for the above experiment, it will positively take place on Monday, July 3, 1815, at the Angel Gardens, Lambeth Walk, (late Chapman's) near Vauxhall, ... .
Contributor: Glindon, William, active 1793-1837, publisher.
Published / Created: 1815.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: W. Glindon, Rupert-Street, Haymarket
Description: Caption title.
Broadside advertising an ascent by Sieur Krous involving balloons in the form of Henry IV of France and "a number of wild animals", which would perform an "aerial chace, or hunt in the air".
With a newspaper clipping from The Times for the 4th July 1815 explaining that there were long delays at the event, and insufficient gas to fill the balloons. For further information, consult library staff.
Provenance: Pickering & Chatto; January 2023.
Extent: 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 27 x 18 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

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Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: File 53 K93 815

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Genre: Advertisements
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Resource Type: text
Subject (Geographic): England.
Subject (Name): Krous, sieur, active 1815.
Subject (Topic): Ballooning
Subjects: Krous, sieur, active 1815
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