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1. Aerostation out at elbows, or, The itinerant aeronaut [graphic].
- Creator:
- Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1868?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 28. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Lunardi, slim and handsome, walks diagonally towards the spectator from the right, supported on a staff, his left hand held out as if begging. On his back is his collapsed balloon, a large bundle from which project a net and two oars or propellers. His dress is fashionable but ragged. In the background are trees and a church."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Itinerant aeronaut
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Eight lines of verse below title: Behold an hero comely tall and fair! His only food phlogisticated air! ..., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 164., and On leaf 28 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Publisher:
- Field & Tuer
- Subject (Name):
- Restrike, with printing plate cut down on bottom edge removing imprint. For original issue with the imprint "Pubd. 5 Sepr. 1785 by T. Cornell, Bruton Street", see no. 6858 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6. and Lunardi, Vincent, 1759-1806
- Subject (Topic):
- Balloonists and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Aerostation out at elbows, or, The itinerant aeronaut [graphic].
2. Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia [graphic].
- Creator:
- Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.00.00.79+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A companion print to British Museum Satires nos. 6700, 6701, 6703. An enormous balloon not completely inflated rests on a platform suspended between two masts; it is exploding, flames and thick clouds of smoke pour from a crease in its contour, a number of men with faggots on their backs run from the balloon, others are on the platform, which is covered by a large cloth or net which hangs in folds. In the air (left), as if having sprung from the exploding part of the balloon, is a small balloon in the form of a head, identical with that in British Museum Satires No. 6704, with the same inscription and passenger. From it streams, in place of a rope, the tail of a kite. This evidently represents the bursting of Keegan's balloon in the garden of Foley House. A circle of posts with a rope keeps the spectators, who are fashionably dressed, from the balloon. Two men inside the barrier (right), probably Blanchard and Sheldon, who was to be pilot (see British Museum Satires No. 6703) run towards the balloon shouting directions through speaking-trumpets. In the foreground is one of the small balloons which were commonly sent up on the occasion of an ascent, cf. British Museum Satires No. 6668. In the background are trees. A number of spectators watch from the top of the high garden-wall (left). [Foley House was noted for its extremely high wall. 'Town and Country Magazine' xvi, 625] Behind are houses, evidently those in or near Portland Place. Sheldon's projected ascent ended in disaster on 25 Sept. 1784. He attempted to fill a balloon more than three times the size of Lunardi's by heated or rarefied air produced by a furnace suspended below the balloon. The balloon was supported on two masts and on a platform; it burst while it was being filled. See 'London Chronicle', Sept. 24, 28, 29. Except for the contour of the balloon which appears to burlesque human posteriors, and for the little balloon in the shape of a fool's head, this is probably a realistic rendering of the scene, see British Museum Satires No. 6703."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Matted to 33 x 43 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Blanchard, Jean-Pierre, 1753-1809., Sheldon, John, 1752-1808., and Lunardi, Vincent, 1759-1806.
- Subject (Topic):
- Balloons (Aircraft), Aircraft accidents, Fires, and Spectators
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia [graphic].
3. Mrs. R-ss The aerial traveller. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- Decr. 1, 1784.
- Call Number:
- 784.12.01.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- 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
- Alternative Title:
- Aerial traveller and Mrs. Ross
- Description:
- Titles from text below images. and From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and country magazine, 1784, page 569.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd by A. Hamilton Junr. Fleet Street
- Subject (Name):
- Lunardi, Vincent, 1759-1806,
- Subject (Topic):
- Balloonists
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mrs. R-ss The aerial traveller. [graphic]
4. Representation of various baloons [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1785?]
- Call Number:
- 785.00.00.41
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Collage composed of three prints with images of four famous balloons and an aerostatic figure; with a fragment of an engraving used as the title; each print is trimmed within its plate mark
- Alternative Title:
- Representation of various balloons
- Description:
- Title from item., Engraved title pasted to top of sheet., Each image with caption below., and Temporary local subject terms: Reference to the Brothers Enslen -- Allusion to the Pantheon -- Balloons -- Aerostatic figures.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Montgolfier, Joseph-Michel, 1740-1810., Lunardi, Vincent, 1759-1806., and Blanchard, Jean-Pierre, 1753-1809.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Representation of various baloons [graphic].
