Cartoons,humorous pictures about early balloon flight in Europe

Cartoons and humorous pictures about early balloon flight in Europe
Title: Cartoons and humorous pictures about early balloon flight in Europe
Date Created/Published: 1783-1895, bulk 1800-1880.
Summary: European cartoons and humorous pictures about balloon flight. Includes historic balloon ascensions by Charles Green, Jeanne-Geneviève Garnerin, French abbots Miollan and Janinet, Jacques Charles, Marie Noël Robert, and Henri Giffard; caricatures of balloonists Camille Dartois and Félix Nadar, as well as French statesman Léon Gambetta, and Italian statesman Francesco Crispi. Balloons are also featured in works commenting on political and social events of the time period.
Notes:
Digitized images of these items display with associated descriptions in the Prints & Photographs Division Online Catalog, http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html
LOT title devised by Library staff.
Formats include lithographs and etchings.
Includes works by various European artists and printmakers. Also, one American cartoon published by Chas. Gildersleave.
Print captions in French, English, Italian, Dutch, and German.
Transfer; Aeronautics Division; ca. 1954.
Forms part of the Tissandier collection.
Subjects:
Aeronautics--Europe--1780-1900.
Balloons (Aircraft)--European--1780-1900.
Balloon ascensions--Europe--1780-1900.
Cartoons (Commentary)--1780-1900.
Etchings--1780-1900.
Humorous pictures--1780-1900.
Lithographs--1780-1900.
Bookmark /2003653059/
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