Two images on one sheet separately titled, showing the ascent of the balloon carrying Robert Cocking on the left, and on the right Cocking falling to his death when the parachute he designed failed
Description:
Titles from text below images. and Two designs on one sheet, each individually titled.
Publisher:
Published by Wm. Morgan, 25 Bartletts Buildings, Holborn
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Cocking, Robert, 1776-1837.
Subject (Topic):
Parachutes, Balloons (Aircraft), and Ballooning accidents
"A young man being hauled out of the water by men in a fishing boat, one holding onto a pole he clutches, another supported by his companions, as he reaches out over the side of the boat to seize the drowning man's jacket; with three gentlemen in a boat behind to right and a hot-air balloon sinking in the waves in the background; after Barralet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs June 4th, 1787, by Thos. Milton, No. 40 Great Queen Street, Lincolns Inn Fields, London, and by J. James Barralet, in Dublin
Subject (Name):
MacGwire, Richard, active 1785,
Subject (Topic):
Ballooning accidents, Balloons (Aircraft), Fishing boats, and Rescues
