Descent of the Great Balloon.

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• PUBLISHER: T. Mc Lean, 26, Haymarket, October 22nd 1836.

• MEDIUM: Lithograph,

  DATE: 1836

• EDITION SIZE: Image size 13 x 9 1/2" (330 x 242 mm).

• DESCRIPTION: A cartoon satirizing the ballooning craze in England, which had claimed the lives of many aristocrats. The men batter between themselves as their balloon plummets towards the ground. "Ah! I thought we should fall on Irish ground," says one man. "Throw out some paper Spring," says another. <br><br> Other bubbles read, "We are coming down disagreeably fast and all our ballast's exhausted." "I begin to feel a very unpleasant sensation." "Better Palmy them Foreign parts eh?" "I have just thrown out a lot of bills - and they shew that we are falling fast." "Look down Johnny - if your head will bear it - and tell us what you see." "I can see nothing but an immense bog - which we seem to be approaching with frightfull rapidity."

• ADDITIONAL INFO:

• CONDITION: Good condition with modern color. Mounted onto a separate sheet giving it a french mat.

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• CATEGORIES: 18th-19th Century Subjects , Aviation , Lighter than Air