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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].

Creator:: Lodge, John, -1796, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1 December 1783]
Call Number:: 783.12.01.01
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: An air balloon, shown as a globe, lands in front of a cottage causing panic among those who were watching its progress. A cleric, holding a crucifix and a bible, attempts to exorcise the evil while the sheep, the cock, and the goose that travelled in the balloon's basket escape unharmed. A monkey looks on from a nearby tree. Below the image is a brief description of Montgolfier's experiment
Description:: Title etched above image., Plate from: European magazine, October 1783, p. 272., and Sequel to no. 6334 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Publisher:: Publish'd Decr. 1st, 1783, by J. Fielding, Pater Noster Row
Subject (Geographic):: France
Subject (Name):: Montgolfier, Joseph-Michel, 1740-1810.
Subject (Topic):: Balloons (Aircraft), Spectators, Animals, and Clergy
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The descent of the air balloon [graphic]