1785 Collection (page 5)

Lunardis new balloon 1785
Lunardis new balloon. 1785. [C.F.A. Pierce Collection]. Bottom half

The first aerial crossing of the English Channel - Blanchard
Original contemporary etching, coloured by hand, of the first aerial crossing of the English Channel, undertaken by Jean-Pierre Blanchard and an American physician, Dr John Jeffries

Lunardis Grand Air Balloon. Engraved for the Aerostatic Spy, 1 April 1785

Plate of Mr James Deekers ascent at Norwich
Plate of Mr James Deekers ascent, Norwich, 1785

The rescue of Major Money off Yarmouth
Plate showing The rescue of Major Money off Yarmouth. 23 July 1785

The Perilous Situation of Major Money
Plate showing The Perilous Situation of Major Money. When he fell into the sea with his balloon on th 23 July 1785 off the coast of Yarmouth; was providentially discovered

Major Moneys Perilous Situation
Plate showing Major Moneys Perilous Situation. When he fell into the sea 23 July 1785 off the coast of Yarmouth. From Polehamptons Gallery of Art and Nature

A View of the Royal Circus from St Georges
Plate showing A View of the Royal Circus from St Georges Fields at the time of the Ascension of Arnolds Balloon. 1785

Plate of Tiberius Cavallo FRS from The History and Practice
Plate of Tiberius Cavallo, FRS, from The History and Practice of Aerostation, by Tiberius Cavallo, FRS, published in London in 1785

Plate from Relation du 15me Voyage Aerien de Mr Blanchard
Plate from Relation du 15me Voyage Ae

Thoughts of the Farther Improvement of Aerostation
Title page of Thoughts of the Farther Improvement of Aerostation, or the Art of Travelling in the Atmosphere, by Mr Hoole published in London in 1785

Mr Lunardis Account of his Ascension
Plate from Mr Lunardis Account of his Ascension and Aerial Voyage from the New Fort, Liverpool, on Wednesday the 20th July, 1785, by Vincent Lunardi

An Account of Mr James Deekers Two Aerial Expeditions
Plate from An Account of Mr James Deekers Two Aerial Expeditions, published in Norwich in 1785

Friedrich Wieck
FRIEDRICH WIECK German piano teacher, father of Clara who married Robert Schumann. Date: 1785 - 1873

George Iii / Turkish Chief
GEORGE III King George III receives the Turkish Ambassador from his throne. Date: circa 1785

Count Zambeccaris balloon

First balloon flight over the English Channel, from Dover to the French coast, by Jean-Pierre Blanchard. Seen here is the balloon in flight between Calais and Boulogne, with a fisherman

Blanchard and Lepinard balloon ascent
14th balloon ascent of Jean-Pierre Blanchard, accompanied by the Chevalier Lepinard, at Lille, Flanders. With spectators and soldiers on the ground. 26 August 1785

Blanchard balloon flight to Frankfurt, Germany
Jean-Pierre Blanchards balloon flight to Frankfurt, Germany. Seen here flying above the crowds in a city park with a small parachute attached to the gondola. (1 of 2) 3 October 1785

Lunardi in a balloon
Lunardis Grand Air Balloon, engraved for the Aerostatic Spy 1 April 1785. Probably depicting his flight from the Artillery Grounds to Ware in Hertfordshire on 15 September 1784. 1785

Rescue of Major Money off the coast of Yarmouth

Lunardis second Grand Air Balloon
Mr Lunardis second Grand Air Balloon, in which he ascended from the Artillery Ground on 13 May, and with Mr Biggin and Mrs Sage from St Georges Fields on 29 June. May-June 1785

Three passengers in a balloon
Vincent Lunardi, George Biggin and Mrs Sage in balloon cage. 1785

Mr Biggin and Mrs Sage in Lunardis balloon
Mr Biggin and Mrs Sage going up from St Georges Field in Lunardis balloon, 29 June 1785. June 1785

Lunardis new balloon
Lunardis New Balloon, with vignettes depicting its making, filling, ascending, at its height, and descending. 1785

Lunardis balloon (bearing a lion and unicorn royal crest) and car containing three people. 1785

La quatorzieme experience aerostatique de M. Blanchard accompagne du Chevalier Lepinard faite e Lille en Flandre, le 26 aout 1785 Dediee e Messieurs les Magistrats de la ville de Lille en Flandre

Mrs. Sage, the first English female aerial traveller, who ascended with Mr. Biggin in Mr. Lunardis balloon, from St. Georges Fields, June 29th, 1785

Francois Pilatre de Rozier, ne e Metz le 30. mars 1756, mort pres de Boulogne sur Mer le 15. juin 1785. Oval head-and-shoulders profile portrait of French balloonist Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier

The perilous situation of Major Mony i. e. Money, when he fel
The perilous situation of Major Mony i.e. Money, when he fell into the sea with his balloon on the 23rd of July, 1785, off the coast of Yarmouth... Date 1789 June 24

Franklins return to Philadelphia, 1785. Benjamin Franklin, Richard Bache, his wife Sarah, Franklins daughter, and her son Benjamin Franklin Bache at dockside in Philadelphia

James B Brown, Lawyer
JAMES B BROWN Lawyer and writer with his autograph Date: 1785 - 1843

Sauvage Photo
FREDERIC SAUVAGE French engineer, inventor of the screw propellor, in 1854. Date: 1785 - 1857

Amersham Village Pump
The old village pump at Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England, which dates from 1785. Date: 1785

James Harrington Evans
JAMES HARRINGTON EVANS Churchman, baptist minister, clutching his Bible. Date: 1785 - 1849

Achille Duc De Broglie
ACHILLE LEONCE VICTOR CHARLES, duc de BROGLIE French statesman under Napoleon and Louis XVIII. Date: 1785 - 1870

Modern Athenians plate 24 - Edinburgh
Mr George Thompson (1757-1851) noted collector of the Music of Scotland and a friend of Robert Burns. approaching J F Williams (1785-1846) a teacher of drawing and a painte"

Burns / Cotters Saturday
THE COTTERs SATURDAY NIGHT His bonnet rev rently is laid aside, his lyart haffets wearing thin and bare; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide

Burns / Second Epistle
SECOND EPISTLE TO DAVIE A Brother Poet Hale be your heart, hale be your fiddle; Lang may your elbow jink an diddle

Guardian statues, Wat Phra Keo, Bangkok, Thailand
A row of guardian statues lining the elaborate Phra Mondop (Library) of the Wat Phra Keo (Temple of the Emerald Buddha), Bangkok, Thailand

Mary Chaworth (1785-1832)
Illustration showing Mary Chaworth, the woman who George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron, was infatuated with from a young age

Inhabitant of the Moon
An inhabitant of the Moon

Manzoni / Hayez / Ilz 1923
ALESSANDRO MANZONI Italian novelist and poet

England / Lichfield 1785
View near Lichfield (Staffordshire) " including a most remarkably large willow tree"

Elizabeth Bonaparte
ELIZABETH BONAPARTE daughter of William Patterson of Baltimore, first wife of Napoleons brother Jerome. The marriage was annulled after two years 1803 - 1805

Blanchard Leaves Dover
Jean-Pierre Blanchard and Dr John Jefferies leave Dover on their cross-Channel flight which makes them the first people to cross from England to France by air

The Wapping Concert
A satire on Madame Mara, a concert singer. She sang at the Handel Commemoration in Westminster Abbey in 1784 and 1785. She had rickets in her childhood - hence Le Genou Inflexible

FAN / BALLOONS / 1785
A silk folding fan with decorative carved sticks depicting various balloons and other attempts at flight, including those by Dollfus and Montgolfier

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