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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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Item No. 33. 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 pri470 Box 4, Item No. 47] Artist(s): James Gillray. From Anderson Galleries catalog no. 1404, item 69.
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Item No. 49. Dees Nederlandsche Koe, altoos door Waereld-grooten …
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[Dutch caricature on the political conditions of the Netherlands with 26 lines of verse in two columns; same image as RB 10015, Item no. 19:1] From Maggs Bros. catalog no. 387, Item 1434.
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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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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. 12. The Flight of the Intellect. : Portrait of Mr. Golightly, experimenting on Mess. Quick & Speed's new patent, high pressure, Steam Riding Rocket
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[print, color; caricature; same image as RB 10015, Item no. 35:2.] Artist(s): G. E. Madeley. Printer /Publisher text: "G.E. Madeley Lith, 3 Wellington St. Strand." From Maggs Bros. catalog no. 387, Item 1441.
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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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