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
Bonvallet, L. (Louis), approximately 1748-1818, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1785]
Call Number:
785.01.00.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A scene in rural France: A farmer holding onto a plow drawn by a team of oxen, shepherds with their sheep, and a man fishing in a stream, all look up in astonishment at the air balloon overhead. This print references the third flight of Jean-Pierre Blanchard, his second with American John Jeffries and the first flight over the English Channel
Alternative Title:
Premier passager aerien de la mer and Dedié à Mr. Blanchard, pensioné du roi, citoyen de Calais
Description:
Title etched below image., Dedication etched above title: Dedié à Mr. Blanchard, Pensioné de Roi, Citoyen de Calais., "Avec Privilege du Roi"--Following imprint., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Six lines of verse, signed "Basset" at the end, in two columns below title: Le Pécheur qui sur l'eau tenait son bras tendu ...
Publisher:
Chez Basset rue St. Jacques au coin de celle des Mathurins
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Name):
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre, 1753-1809. and Jeffries, John, 1745-1819.
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.
