• Print, Etching on Paper, Colored, MONUMENT OF THE UNFORTUNATE PILATRE DE ROZIER AND ROMAIN WHO WERE KILLED NEAR THIS SPOT BETWEEN BOULOGNE & CALAIS ON THE BALLOON TAKING FIRE JUNE 15TH 1785.
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    Colored etching of the monument erected in honor of Pilatre de Rozier and Romain near the spot they were killed in a ballooning accident on June 15, 1785. Image shows the monument on the left side of the scene, next to a dirt road by a lake. Buildings in the background.

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Vanessa Nagengast

Date Created

03/16/2015

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National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

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