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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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Item No. 8. Coelum ipsum pelimus studitia
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[print; "The English Balloon, 1784"--text written on clown balloon's hat at upper left of image; same incident as pri470 Box 1, Item No. 7] From Maggs Bros. catalog no. 387, Item 1378.
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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. 7. 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 RB 10015, Item No. 13] Printer/Publisher text: "London, published Oct. 20, 1784 by E. Wyatt" From Maggs Bros. catalog no. 387, Item 1377.
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Item No. 25. A representation of M: Blanchards balloon & apparatus
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[print] Artist(s): C. Heydinger. Printer /Publisher text: "Publish'd Septr. 14th 1784 by C. Heydinger Queen's Court Great Queen St. Lincolns Inn Fields." From Maggs Bros. catalog no. 387, Item 1455.
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Item No. 56. Vincent Lunardi Esqr
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[print; portrait of Italian-English aeronaut Vincenzo Lunardi (1759-1806)] Printer/Publisher text: "Publish'd Sepr. 30 1784 by John Walker." From Maggs Bros. catalog no. 387, Item 1333.
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Item No. 36. Aerostation out at the elbows or the Itinerant Aeronaut
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[print, color; caricature of Vincenzo Lunardi by Rowlandson, 1786, with 8 lines of verse] Artist(s): Rowlandson. From Maggs Bros. catalog no. 387, Item 1337.
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