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Photo, Print, DrawingThe captivating Miss B- [and] the American negotiator 1 print : engraving. | Cameo portraits of a woman, Miss B., a "nominal widow", and Silas Deane.- Date: 1783-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Kaminari Shōkurō, Akazawa Jūnai]
[雷庄九郎, 赤沢十内] 2 prints : woodcut, color ; 37 x 25 cm.- Contributor: Utagawa, Toyokuni
- Date: 1783
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Photo, Print, Drawing[1st human balloon ascension; balloon with Pilatre de Rozier and Marquis d'Arlandes above Paris. Nov. 1783] 1 print : engraving.- Date: 1783-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingDescente de la machine aerostatique des Srs. Charles et Robert 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; 20 x 25 cm. | Print shows Jacques Charles and Marie Noel Robert stepping out of their hydrogen balloon on a plain near Nesle, France after the first manned balloon flight in December of 1783.- Date: 1783-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingMrs. W-n [and] the careful commander 1 print : engraving. | Cameo portraits of a woman, Mrs. W, a widow from New York, and General Guy Carleton.- Date: 1783-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingUne faiseuse de flutte / Eine Pfeiffenmacherin (A Female Wind Instrument Maker)- Contributor: Rössler, Michael
- Date: 1700
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe Descent of the Air-Balloon 1 print : engraving ; 18 x 10 cm. | Fanciful depiction of the landing of Etienne Montgolfier's balloon near a cottage at Vaucresson after an eight mile flight from Paris, Septembr 19, 1783, carrying three animals in a basket. The cock, the sheep, and the duck are seen on the ground; the balloon and the animals are being observed by astonished and frightened…- Date: 1783-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingMay- Contributor: Bartolozzi, Francesco
- Date: 1700
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Shii no shōshō Mnesada]
[四位少将宗貞] 1 print : woodcut, color ; 37 x 26 cm.- Contributor: Utagawa, Toyokuni
- Date: 1783
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CollectionTissandier Collection The Tissandier Collection contains approximately 975 items documenting the early history of aeronautics with an emphasis on balloon flight in France and other European countries. Subjects include general and technical images of balloons, airships, and flying machines; portraits of famous balloonists; views of numerous ascensions, accidents, and world's fairs; cartoons featuring balloon themes; pictorial and textual broadsides; and colorful ephemera and poster advertisements. There…- Contributor: Tissandier, Gaston - Tissandier, Albert
- Date: 1773
Collection Items: View 417 Items
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe general p--s, or peace 1 print : etching, hand-colored. | Print shows five men, an Englishman, a Dutchman, a Native representing America, a Spaniard, and a Frenchman urinating into a pot. The Englishman says, "Say what they will, I call this an honourable P--," the Native says, "I call this a free and Independent P--," and the Frenchman says, "Jack English we confess your exceeding good nature, tho'…- Date: 1783-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe tea-tax-tempest, or Old Time with his magick-lanthern 1 print : etching. | Cartoon shows America, seated on the left, and a sombre Britannia treated to a glass lantern presentation on the American Revolution. Father Time, leaning against a globe, provides a commentary on the momentous events projected by the lantern: an exploding teapot, the Boston Tea Party, over a fire that is fueled by paper taxed by the Stamp Act and…- Date: 1783-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingLe moment d'hilarité universelle ou le triomphe de MMrs. Charles et Robert au Jardin des Thuileries le 1er Xbre 1783 1 print : etching. | Print shows the balloon of Jacques Alexandre César Charles and Marie-Noël Robert ascending from the Tuileries Garden, Paris, France, December 1, 1783 in the first hydrogen balloon flight. Inset view shows proposed monument. (Source: A.G. Renstrom, LC staff, 1981-82.)- Contributor: Bertaux, H. G.
- Date: 1783-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Adachi Yasuke, Genjiro iinazuke Hazue, Hayase Iori]
[安達弥助, 源次郎言号葉末, 早瀬伊織] 2 prints : woodcut, color ; 37 x 25 cm.- Contributor: Utagawa, Toyokuni
- Date: 1783
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Photo, Print, DrawingDevelopment of balloon flight in Europe 64 prints : some color ; 59 x 44 cm. or smaller. | European prints show events in early balloon flight and close-ups of historic and imagined balloons. Subjects include ascents by famous French, British, and Italian balloonists, including the Montgolfier brothers, Jacques Charles, Jean-Franc̜ois Pilâtre de Rozier, James Sadler, and Vincent Lunardi. Balloon accidents are represented in views of Jules Duruof's crash at…- Date: 1783
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Photo, Print, DrawingAutels Trepieds et Instruments de Musique (Altar Tripods and Musical Instruments)- Contributor: Unknown Artist
- Date: 1700
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Gilbert Stuart, self-portrait, half-length, right profile, holding pencil or brush, drawing] 1 drawing : ink and wash ; sheet 10.7 x 10.2 cm.- Contributor: Stuart, Gilbert - Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1783-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingAmusement for John Bull & his cousin Paddy, or, the gambols of the American buffalo, in St. James's Street 1 print : etching and engraving. | Print shows several ministers helping themselves to fishes and loaves that have spilled from a fishwife's basket which was upset by a rampaging "American Buffalo"; among those depicted are the Duke of Portland, Lord Cavendish, Lord North, Charles Fox, Lord Thurlow, Admiral Keppel, Lord Shelburne, and Thomas(?) Pitt. George III watches the shameless opportunism from a window…- Contributor: Fielding, John (Bookseller) - Fielding, John
- Date: 1783-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingNiwa no yukimi 1 print : woodcut, color. | Print shows three women on a veranda looking at a snow-covered garden.- Contributor: Torii, Kiyonaga
- Date: 1783-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Asayama Tetsuzan]
[浅山鉄山] 1 print : woodcut, color ; 36 x 25 cm.- Contributor: Utagawa, Toyokuni
- Date: 1783
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Photo, Print, DrawingExperience de la machine areostatique 1 print : etching, hand-colored. | Vue d'optique shows the Montgolfier brothers' balloon, "The Globe," ascending from Champ de Mars, Paris, France, August 27, 1783.- Date: 1783-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingSir Harbord Harbord Bart 1 print : mezzotint ; sheet 64.4 x 39.9 cm- Contributor: Smith, John Raphael - Gainsborough, Thomas
- Date: 1783
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Photo, Print, DrawingL--d Shel--, begging Monsieur to make piss or p--e 1 print : etching. | Print shows Lord Shelburne holding a chamber pot up to a Frenchman, saying "Monsieur, be so obliging as to make piss with us." The Frenchman is kicking the pot, saying, "By the House of Bourbon, with the war we'll go on."- Date: 1783-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingIn Assembly, Tues., December 2nd, 1783 1 print : letterpress. | Text of "the report of the Committee ..." describing the "triumphal arch and its ornaments."- Date: 1783-01-01