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- Creator:
- 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.
- Subject (Topic):
- Balloon ascensions, Balloonists, English, French, Balloons (Aircraft), Farmers, Fishermen, Ox teams, Rural areas, and Shepherds
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Apparition du globe aerostatique de Mr. Blanchard, entre Calais et Boulogne parti de Douvres le 7 de Janvier 1785 à 1 heure 1/2 [graphic]