1783 Collection (page 7)

Collecting cards with pictures of events in ballooning history from 1783 to 1883. Date between 1890 and 1900

Depart de MM. Charles & Robert, du Jardin des Tuilleries dans leur machine aerostatique, le 1er decembre 1783. Print shows the balloon of Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles

Le moment d hilarite universelle ou le triomphe de MMrs. Charles et Robert au Jardin des Thuileries le 1er Xbre 1783. Print shows the balloon of Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles

Charles aux Thuilleries i. e. Tuileries le 1er decembre 1783
Charles aux Thuilleries i.e. Tuileries le 1er decembre 1783. Head-and-shoulders profile portrait of French balloonist JAC. Charles, who made the first flight in a hydrogen balloon, Dec. 1, 1783

JOHN LEE Scientist and collector with his autograph Date: 1783 - 1866

Montgolfier Cartoon
Peasants at Gonesse, near Paris, France, attacking and destroying the experimental balloon of the Montgolfier brothers with pitchforks, for being the devils work! Date: 27 August 1783

Henry Brooke, Writer - 1
HENRY BROOKE Irish writer of novels and plays including The fool of quality. Date: 1703 - 1783

Henry Brooke, Writer - 2
HENRY BROOKE Irish writer of novels and plays including The fool of quality. Date: 1703 - 1783

Henry Brooke, Writer - 3
HENRY BROOKE Irish writer of novels and plays including The fool of quality, seated at a table, writing. with his autograph Date: 1703 - 1783

Johann Jacob Bodmer
JOHANN JACOB BODMER Swiss writer in German. Date: 1698 - 1783

John Bowdler
JOHN BOWDLER English lawyer and writer, mainly on religious themes : troubled by ill-health. Date: 1783 - 1815

Stendhal (Etching)
STENDHAL (real name Marie-Henri Beyle) French writer Date: 1783 - 1842

Stendhal (Goor)
STENDHAL French writer Date: 1783 - 1842

Benjamin Collings Brodie
BENJAMIN COLLINS BRODIE Medical : surgeon-general to Queen Victoria. Date: 1783 - 1862

Colquhoun / Silhouette
PATRICK COLQUHOUN Police magistrate, scottish merchant and reformer. Founded Glasgow Chamber of Commerce 1783. Date: 1745 - 1820

Modern Athenians plate 13 - Edinburgh
John, Lord Cuninghame (1783-1854) approaching Adam, Lord Gillies (1766-1842), both lawyers, judges and Whigs. Both carry umbrellas

William Pitt (1759-1806)
Engraving of William Pitt, the second son of the Earl of Chatham, who came to be known as Pitt the Younger. In 1783, Pitt became Britains youngest Prime Minister, by taking the post at the age of 24

Montholon / Bompled
CHARLES-TRISTAN COMTE DE MONTHOLON French soldier and Napoleons executor Date: 1783 - 1853

John Gully - 1
JOHN GULLY Prize-fighter, horse-racer and legislator

Charles, Robert, Balloon
Unmanned balloon, filled with inflammable Air drawn from Iron by means of a Vitriolic Acid travels from the Champ de Mars to Gonzesse where it is attacked by peasants

Francois Magendie
FRANCOIS MAGENDIE French physiologist from Bordeaux who studied the nervous system

Vincenzo Lunardi
VINCENZO LUNARDI Italian Diplomat who piloted the first balloon flight in England in 1783 at Moorfields in London. Balloon later exhibited at the Pantheon

Siege of Gibraltar 2
The Spanish besiege Gibraltar 1779 to 1783 : in November 1781 general Eliott orders a sortie by the garrison

Anna Duchess Bedford
ANNA MARIA STANHOPE duchess of BEDFORD, wife of Francis, 7th duke : depicted as the goddess Hebe

French Duchesse
A duchesse at the court of Louis XVI, just before the revolution

Two Baronesses
Two baronesses at the court of Louis XVI, just before the revolution

William Henry Cavendish
WILLIAM HENRY CAVENDISH BENTINCK, 3RD DUKE OF PORTLAND British statesman and Prime Minister (1783)

Siddons / Fair Penitent
SARAH SIDDONS Actress in the role of Calista in Rowes Fair Penitent

D EPINAY (1726 - 1783)
LOUISE FLORENCE DE LA LIVE D EPINAY, French writer and saloniste, patron of Rousseau, friend of Voltaire and Melchior Grimm

Jean Le Rond D alembert
JEAN LE ROND D ALEMBERT French scientist, mathematician and philosopher; collaborated with Diderot on the Encyclopedie

A M J J Dupin
Andre-Marie-Jean-Jacques DUPIN French lawyer and statesman

Charles & Robert Unmannd
Charles & Roberts unmanned Globe comes down at Gonesse after flying from Paris

James Graham, Quack Doc
James Graham, famous Scottish quack doctor, delivers a lecture to an audience. In December 1783, Graham claimed that he knew the secret to living to the age of 150

Linen Processing
Various stages in the processing of Linen. The wash mill, rubbing boards, beetling engine (for glazing) & boiling house

Washington Irving / Brown
WASHINGTON IRVING American writer

Mongolfier Manned Flight
First manned flight by Pilatre de Rozier and D Arlandes in Mongolfiere, Paris

Wales / Caerleon Tower
Remains of the Roman tower at Caerleon

Papa Reads to Family
Father reads by candlelight to his wife and their six children in a well- to-do household

Alembert / Jean / Trade Card
JEAN LE ROND D ALEMBERT French scientist, philosopher and encyclopedist

James Otis / Chappel
JAMES OTIS American Revolutionary statesman

Cannibals / Sabbat (1783)
Cannibalistic practices at a witches Sabbat

First Manned Flight
Pilatre de Rozier and le marquis d Arlandes make the first manned flight, in a hot- air Montgolfiere, over Paris

Montgolfier / Manned
Balloon of de Rozier and d Arlandes makes its first manned ascent

Charles & Robert
Celebrated flight from Tuileries Garden by J.A.C. Charles, and Louis- Nicolas Robert

Hatfield House (C18)
A view across the deer park towards Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, the seat of the earls of Salisbury

Gilpins Famous Ride
THE DIVERTING HISTORY OF JOHN GILPIN Gilpin, wigless and on the back of a uncontrolled horse, is chased by other horseback riders to try to slow him

Gilpin at Edmonton
THE DIVERTING HISTORY OF JOHN GILPIN Gilpin, on the back of his uncontrolled horse, speeds past his family waving from the balcony at Edmonton

Gilpins Family Set Off
THE DIVERTING HISTORY OF JOHN GILPIN Gilpin and his family set off by carriage

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