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Item No. 7. All on Fire -- or the Doctors disappointed. A view taken in Lord Foley's Garden, Sept. 29, 1784
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Item No. 13. All on Fire -- or the Doctors disappointed. A view taken in Lord Foley's Garden, Sept. 29, 1784
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[print; image of a burning balloon; same image as pri470 Box 1, Item 7] Printer/Publisher text: "London, published Oct. 20, 1784 by E. Wyatt No. 360 Oxford Street" From Anderson Galleries catalog no. 1404, item 69.
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Item No. 29. Patern [sic] for a lady's pocket
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[print; embroidery pattern with handwritten note "Lunardi the first ascent in England Sept. 1784"; same image as RB 10015, Item no. 25:2] Artist(s): Alexander Hogg. From Maggs Bros. catalog no. 387, Item 1338.
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Item No. 47. Tentand via est qua me quoque possim Tollere humo Virgil Geor: ; He steers his flight A loft incumbent on the dusky air That felt unusual weight Par. Lost
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[print, color; caricature with verse in English from Paradise Lost and verse in Latin from Virgil's Georgics and French verse; image includes Lord Grenville in ascending balloon; same image as RB 10015, Item no. 33] Artist(s): James Gillray. From Maggs Bros. catalog no. 387, Item 1439.
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Item No. 18. Embrâsement deplorable de la machine aërostatique des Srs. Miolan et Janinet le dimanche 11 Juillet 1784
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[print, color; same image as RB 10015, Item no. 23] Artist(s): J. Chereau. Printer /Publisher text: "A Paris chez J. Chereau rue St. Jacques au dessus de la Fontaine St. Severin aux 2 Colonnes No. 257." From Maggs Bros. catalog no. 387, Item 1371.
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Item No. 22. Entrée de S.M. Louis XVIII à Paris passant sur le pont neuf le 3 Mai 1814
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[print; same image as RB 10015, Item no. 45] Artist(s): Courvoisier; Dubois. Printer /Publisher text: "à Paris che. Basset rue St. Jacques No. 64." From Maggs Bros. catalog no. 387, Item 1398.
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Item No. 46. Since air Ballooning is the Ton, among the Higher Folk / A Middle Class may take it up and Turn it to a Joke. / And a joking we will go &c / By Complaisance and French Balloons, Gay Gallias Flighty Sons … This World like Keegans Huge Balloon is nothing but a Bubble."
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[print; caricature with verse; "The English Balloon 1784"--text on balloon] From Maggs Bros. catalog no. 387, Item 1433.
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