Ballooning Collection (page 7)

Garnerins balloons
Five illustrations of An exact representation of M. Garnerins Balloons with an accurate view of the ascent and descent of the parachute

Balloons and ballooning scenes

Airship shaped like a fish, Spain
An airship shaped like a fish, being rowed across the sky from the town of Plazentia to Coria in Spain, piloted by Dom Joseph Patinho

German lottery game
A German lottery game, Neues Bilder Lotterie Spiel. With eighty miniature pictograms depicting various technologies, including a balloon. circa early 19th century

Satirical cartoon, raising a balloon
Satirical cartoon, Moyen infaillible d enlever les Ballons -- a group of commedia dell arte characters trying to raise a balloon on a wooden frame. circa 18th century

Satirical cartoon, March of Intellect No. 2, showing various forms of transport including balloons and other flying machines. circa 1828

Satirical cartoon, An Aerial Excursion, showing a thin Englishman and a plump Frenchwoman in a balloon, while the crowd on the ground makes rude comments in speech bubbles. 1802

Spectators of balloon ascent, Paris
Aux Amateurs de Physique, Vue d Optique. An image of chaos as spectators try to get over the wall without a ticket, to watch the balloon ascent of Messrs Charles

Satirical cartoon, Rural Sports, Balloon Hunting

Satirical cartoon, Descent of the Great Balloon
Satirical political cartoon, Descent of the Great Balloon, showing ten politicians travelling in a hot-air balloon. Speech bubbles show the mens concerns about the rapid descent of the balloon

Satirical cartoon, A Rising Statesman
Satirical political cartoon, A Rising Statesman. Showing a young politician with an older man in a balloon gondola, waving his hat to an imaginary crowd below

Satirical cartoon, An Appropriate Text!, showing a street preacher preaching to four bored-looking people while a large crowd watches the launch of the Charles Green balloon

Satirical cartoon on ballooning

Robert Brothers in balloon over the Tuileries, Paris
The Robert Brothers and M. Collin-Hullin ascending in a large oval balloon from the Tuileries Gardens, Paris. 1784

Smiling face balloon
Satirical cartoon showing a smiling human face as a balloon in process of being inflated, implying a madness perhaps caused by the gas entering the brain. 1784

Departing by balloon

People and animals with a balloon
Fanciful design showing crowds of people and animals watching the ascent of an idealised balloon (complete with what appears to be a key to wind it up)

Ornate Montgolfier balloon
An ornate Montgolfier balloon, Le Flesselles, measuring 126 feet high and 100 feet wide. Montgolfier and six others ascended in this balloon above Lyons, France, on 19 January 1784. 1784

Balloon ascending with Sadler and Paget
A balloon ascending with Mr Sadler and Captain Paget of the Royal Navy from the gardens of the Mermaid Tavern, Hackney, London, watched by a crowd of spectators. 12 August 1811

Rescue of Major Money off the coast of Yarmouth

Lunardis balloon ascent from Artillery Ground
Lunardis balloon ascent from the grounds of the Honourable Artillery Company, making him the first Aerial Traveller in the English Atmosphere. With crowds of spectators. 15 September 1784

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

Opening of the New Hungerford Market
View during the opening of the New Hungerford Market, with boats on the River Thames, and a balloon in the sky, piloted by Mr Graham. 2 July 1833

Satirical ballooning cartoon, Lord Grenville
He Steers His Flight. Satirical cartoon on the subject of Lord Grenvilles installation as Chancellor of Oxford University

Fanciful ballooning scene

Professor demonstrating a balloon
A Professor filling and explaining to an audience the nature of a balloon. 1784

King and Queen watching a balloon ascent, Windsor
The King, Queen and others watching a balloon ascent from the garden of Windsor Castle. 1784

Royal Family viewing balloon ascent, Windsor
The Royal Family viewing a balloon ascent in the garden of Windsor Castle. 1784

Lunardis balloon spectators
Lower half of a picture entitled Lunardis Balloon, showing a crowd of spectators standing in a circle -- the balloon is presumably in the sky above them. circa 1780s

Lunardis balloon, Pantheon
Lunardis balloon, exhibited in the Pantheon, Oxford Street, London. 1784

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

Fanciful balloon, La Minerve
Fanciful drawing of a balloon carrying a large ship entitled La Minerve vaisseau airien, designed by Professor Robertson. circa 18th century

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

Blanchards balloon ascent, Chelsea, London
Grand Aerostatic Balloon, in which Mr Blanchard ascended from the Royal Military Academy at Little Chelsea, London. 16 October 1784

Satirical ballooning cartoon
Satirical cartoon: The Aerostatic Stage Balloon sets out from Swan with two necks Various passengers can be seen, sitting on three levels. They include royalty, a pope, a cardinal and a devil. 1783

Mr Green on horseback with his balloon
Article and illustration, Ascension of Mr Green with his Balloon, on Horseback, on Tuesday from the Eagle Tavern, City Road, with an Account of his Descent at Beckenham in Kent. 1828

Balloon ascending with animal passengers
The Ascent of the Aerial Balloon. A fanciful engraving of a balloon rising with a cage full of animals (a duck, a cockerel and a lamb), with a crowd of people watching. 1783

Descent of Montgolfier balloon
The descent of the Montgolfier balloon, landing in countryside to the consternation of local farmers. 1783

Ornately decorated balloon in flight
An ornately decorated balloon in flight, possibly over Islington, North London. 1815

Montgolfier balloon, Gonesse, near Paris
General alarm of the inhabitants of Gonesse, near Paris, resulting from the fall of Montgolfiers air balloon. 1783

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

Professor Baldwin Ballooning and Parachuting, 1888
Engraving showing 9 scenes from Professor Baldwins demonstration of ballooning and parachuting, held in the grounds of the Alexandra Palace, London, 1888

Balloon with Mirage
A hot air balloon with mirage and reflection

Gordon Bennett (Younger)
JAMES GORDON BENNETT (the younger) American newspaper proprietor, notable for backing explorers and sporting ventures including motoring, sailing and ballooning

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

Balloon Satire of 1785
French satire on ballooning using horses to steer wayward balloon

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