• Print, Etching on Paper, Colored, AEROSTATION OUT AT ELBOWS OR THE ITINERANT AERONAUT.
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    Colored etching showing a man with torn clothing and a walking stick with a crumpled balloon tied to his back. Eight lines of verse printed below the image describing the man as a balloonist begging for money to pay for gas to fill his balloon. The figure is apparently a caricature of Vincenzo Lunardi. 'Pubd. 5. Sept. 1785 by T. Cornell Bruton Street.'

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Vanessa Nagengast

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10/31/2014

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National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

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