Print, coloured. Experience aerostatique Faite a Versailles le 19th September

PART OF:: Collection of prints of hot-air balloons

Made:: 1783

Print, coloured. Experience aerostatique Faite a Versailles le

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Print, coloured. Experience aerostatique Faite a Versailles le 19th September, 1783 en presence de leurs Majesties de la Famille Royale. Description in French and German. ( Hot-air balloon ascent at Versailles in presence of Louis XIV). 16 1/4x13 in. A demonstration flight by the Montgolfier brothers at Versailles using a cloth balloon with a sheep, cock and duck in a wicker basket

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Category:: Art

Object Number:: 1950-298/6

type:: print

credit:: Penn-Gaskell Collection

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Print, coloured. Experience aerostatique Faite a Versailles le 19th September

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