Gondola Collection (page 5)

Le Suffren balloon ascent, Nantes
View of the Le Suffren balloon ascending from the garden of the orphanage, Nantes, France. Including the equipment used to raise and fill it. 14 June 1784

Sadler in balloon above Dublin, Ireland

Ballooning celebration for Queen Victorias birthday
Front page of The Penny Satirist - A cheap substitute for a weekly Newspaper. Showing a large image of the Montgolfier balloon ascending from the Surrey Zoological Gardens with about ten people in

Robertson balloon flight, Munich, Germany
Robertson ascending in a balloon from a square in Munich, Germany, watched by a crowd of spectators. A small parachute is attached to one side of the balloon

Professor Bourguet, balloon ascent, Berlin
Head and shoulders portrait of Professor Bourguet, who made a balloon ascent in Berlin, Germany. 23 May 1804

Garnerin, husband and wife, French ballooning couple
Head and shoulders portraits of Andre-Jacques and Jeanne-Genevieve Garnerin, French ballooning couple, with a small balloon and parachute between them and a scene of spectators below

Blanchard balloon ascent over Nuremberg, Germany

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

Mr Fitzpatrick Kights balloon flight
A hand-painted drawing showing a man standing in the gondola of a balloon waving umbrellas. A handwritten note reads: Mr Fitzpatrick Kights Ascension bought in a native bazaar, Calcutta April 1853

Balloon in flight
A crowd of people watching a balloon in flight. circa early 19th century

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, 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

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)

Blackpool - Illuminated Gondola
Blackpool, Lancashire - an illuminated Gondola Date: circa 1930s

St Marks Square under water
A flooded St. Marks Square - a lone gondola is being paddled across in fron of the Basilica. Date: circa 1910

Panorama of Venice looking toward St. Markss and the Campagnile Date: circa 1910s

Grand Canal Venice
Grand Canal, Venice, Italy 1920s. Date: 1927

Pensione Seguso - Zattere Canal - Venice, Italy Date: circa 1920s

Poe / The Assignation
THE ASSIGNATION The commotion by the Bridge of Sighs. Date: First published: 1834

Gondolas at canal side, Basra, Iraq
Gondolas and ancient cannons at the canal side in Basra, Iraq, known as the Venice of the Middle East

Dubrovnik (Ragusa) - Croatia - Piazza Gundulic
Market stalls on the Piazza Gundulic - Dubrovnik (Ragusa), Croatia - on the left is a monument to Ivan Gundulic (1589 - 1638) - the most celebrated Croatian Baroque poet from the Republic of Ragusa

Venice - Rio Van Axel
Venice - Van Axel Canal

Venice - Rio Albrizzi
Venice - Albrizzi Canal

The Gamma I Airship at Aldershot - an early British Army airship, tested prior to World War One

The Lebaudy Morning Star Airship in 1910 - paid for by readers of the Morning Star.On 26th October 1910 this was the second airship to cross the English Channel South to North

St Johns Bridge, Cambridge- During The May Races, by A. E
An illustration showing a romatic night-time gondola ride

A gondola, part of the wreckage of a German zeppelin which took part in a bombing raid on London on the night of 23rd September 1916

A gondola, part of a crashed zeppelin, being examined by the
Photograph of a gondola, part of the remains of a German zeppelin which was shot down following a bombing raid on London during the night of 23rd September 1916

The Lady of the Gondola by Jean Gabriel Domergue
Illustration depicting a woman in Venetian costume sitting in a gondola

Tourists in a Gondola
American honeymooners, sightseeing Venice from their gondola, consult their Baedeker to check which buildings they should admire

Social Scenes / Italy / 20Th
NIGHTLIFE A fashionable group spend the evening by the water with their friends

A GONDOLA
A gondola makes its way through the waterways of Venice

Couple in Gondola / 1907
Couple in a gondola on the canals of Venice

Venetian man with gondola
A Venetian man on the lookout for some tourists to travel in his gondola

Marie Corelli / Gondola
MARIE CORELLI English novelist in her gondola The Dream on the River Avon

Verdi and Gondola
GIUSEPPE VERDI the Italian opera composer in old age, with a gondola on the water in the background

Offenbach Hoffmann Peddi
The gondola as getaway vehicle - a dramatic scene from Offenbachs Tales of Hoffmann

Gondola at Venice
A moonlit excursion by gondola in the lagoon, Venice

Little Dorrit Title Page
Frontispiece from the Centenary edition of the works of Charles Dickens

Carnival characters in Venice, Italy
Two carnival characters in costume in Venice, Italy

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