Print, Steel Engraving on Paper, Uncolored, PLATE X. ROGERO, PITYING, HEARD THE DAME DEPLORE, / THEN BROKE HER BONDS, AND TOOK HER FROM THE SHORE. / HE SPURS; THE COURSER SPURNS THE SAND, AND FLIES, / ALOFT IN AIR, AND TRAVELS THRO' THE SKIES.
Uncolored steel engraving of hero Rogero and a rescued damsel flying away on his winged beast. Poem describing the scene below. Handwritten note on reverse describes the image as an "aerial fantasy less than half a century before the first flight."
Created by
Vanessa Nagengast
Date Created
03/18/2015
Source
National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
Keywords
Art
Rights and Restrictions
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