File:An English balloon 1784 (BM 1904,0819.719).jpg
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[edit]An English balloon 1784 ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Title |
An English balloon 1784 |
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Description |
English: A companion print to BMSat 6701, 6702, 6703. A balloon in the form of a grinning face wearing a fool's cap across which is etched:
Etching and aquatint |
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Depicted people | Associated with: Vincent Lunardi | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1784 date QS:P571,+1784-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Prints and Drawings |
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Accession number |
1904,0819.719 |
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Notes |
(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) A satire on Lunardi's ascent from the Artillery Ground on 15 Sept. 1784. On one platform (left) are ladies, two wearing enormous calash-hoods, with one of whom a man, probably Lunardi, is shaking hands. A very stout woman in a riding-habit is seated. A man standing behind holding a speaking-trumpet gives orders. A lady ascends to the platform by a ladder. On the other platform, besides some very stout gentlemen, is a young man using a speaking-trumpet with a small dog under his arm; probably Biggin, see BMSat 6706. A cat and dog were taken up. Verses are etched on the vertical front of each platform in the lower right and left corners of the print: (left) 'Close to those Walls where Folly holds her throne And laughs to think Monroe would take it down It once was a rule, when a Wit playd the Fool To give him a Cap with a bell When Philosophers wise on Air Bubbles rise It surely would fit them as well Toll loll &c' (right) 'All that on Folly Frenzy could beget Fruits of dull Head and Sooterkins of Wit. Popes Dunc[iad] Cam, and Isis, no more be proud of your Store In Classics, and Arts, take no trouble Quit your Logic and Greek, if for Fortune you seek Lunardi will shew you his Bubble Toll de roll.' See Lunardi's 'Account of the First Aërial Voyage in England', 1784. There are in the Print Room an etching (coloured) by J. J. Brewer of the ascent from the Artillery Ground, and a plate published by Fores, 23 Sept. 1784, of 'The Enterprizing Lunardi's Grand Air Balloon'. For others satire on balloon ascents see BMSat 6333, &c, and index. See also prints in Banks Collection, i, ff. 20-30 (B.M.L. 1890. e. 15); Kay, Nos. XXXVI, XXXVIII. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1904-0819-719 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date and time of digitizing | 16:41, 5 November 2007 |
File change date and time | 16:48, 5 November 2007 |
Date metadata was last modified | 16:48, 5 November 2007 |