21.
- Creator:
- Lodge, John, -1796, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 November 1783]
- Call Number:
- 783.11.01.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A bewildered group of French people watches in amazement the rising air balloon shown as a perfect globe attached to the handle of a basket in which travel a sheep, a cock, and a goose. The observers include members of all social classes, from the local landlord to a peasant woman with a child. An ape, accompanied by an owl and a scholar, watches the balloon through a telescope from a nearby tower
- Description:
- Title from item. and From the European magazine, October 1783, p. 272.
- Publisher:
- Published Novr. 1st, 1783, by I. Fielding, Pater Noster Row
- Subject (Geographic):
- France
- Subject (Topic):
- Balloons (Aircraft), Spectators, Animals, Telescopes, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The ascent of the aerial balloon [graphic]