1783 Collection (page 8)

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

Sandford & Merton / C18Th
A humourless, moral tale in which the unpleasant & rich Tommy Merton is contrasted with the virtuous Harry Sandford

Balloon Attacked / 1783
The unmanned balloon is attacked on landing at Gonesse after a successful flight from Paris

First Montgolfiere 1783
THE FIRST PRACTICAL BALLOON Montgolfiers first air balloon, unmanned, was launched at Annonay, rose to 2000 metres; the Academie Royale des Sciences paid for the venture

Transport / Flight / Balloon
Ballooning pioneers Charles and Robert land at Nesles, France

Anna Marie Stanhope
ANNA MARIE STANHOPE DUCHESS OF BEDFORD As the Marchioness of Tavistock, wife of Francis 7th Duke

Cartoon / Fox on Elephant
CARLO KHANs TRIUMPHAL ENTRY INTO LEADENHALL STREET Fox as an Indian astride an elephant with the face of Lord North heralded by Edmund Burke A satire on lofty ambition

British Leave USA - 2
The last boat-load of British troops leaves New York : a fleet of vessels will take them home, leaving the colonists to fend for themselves as best they can

British Leave USA
The British prepare to leave New York : a fleet of vessels will take them home, leaving the colonists to fend for themselves as best they can

Alexei & Gregory Orlov
ALEXEI & GRIGORY ORLOV Count Grigory (1734-1783), general and statesman Alexei (1737-1808), military commander

W. Irvings Home / Sleepy H
WASHINGTON IRVING His home at Sleepy Hollow near Tarrytown, New York

Leonhard Euler / Figuier
LEONHARD EULER Swiss mathematician

Simon Bolivar / M N Bate
SIMON BOLIVAR South American soldier, statesman and revolutionary leader - known as the Liberator

Montgolfier Unmanned
A montgolfiere (hot air) flies from Versailles to Vaucresson carrying a sheep, a cock and a hen - the first aerial passengers !

First Montgolfier / Cig Cd
PILATRE DE ROZIER and the MARQUIS D ARLANDES make the first successful manned flight in a Montgolfier balloon (hot air) at Paris

Daniel Bernouilli
DANIEL BERNOUILLI Swiss Professor of mathematics at St Petersburg and of anatomy, botany and physics and then of philosophy at the University of Basel

Travel / Tourism / Italy
Gustaf III of Sweden travels in Italy, admires antiquities

Industry / Textiles / Linen
The linen industry at County Down, Ireland : Breaking and scutching by machinery (plate 4 of 10)

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