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Model for a Proposed Monument to Commemorate the Invention of the Balloon
Clodion (Claude Michel)
ca. 1784
Almanach royal, année bissextile M.DCC.LXXXIV.
Laurent Charles d' Houry
1783
L'Amour dans le globe; ou, L'Almanach volant, composé de petites pièces fugitives, légères ou galantes, en prose & en vers: avac un précis historique de l'origine du globe aérostatique, des expériences du Champ-de-Mars, de Versailles, de la Muette & des Tuileries, ainsi que vers & chansons y relatifs. Le tout enrichi de figures
Chez Jubert
1784
Le calendrier de la cour : tiré des ephémérides, pour l'année bissextile mil sept-cent quatre-vingt-quatre : contenant le lieu du soleil, son lever, son coucher, sa déclinaison: le lever de la lune & son coucher, &c. : avec la naissance des rois, reines, princes & princesses de l'Europe imprimé pour la famille royale et maison de sa Majesté
La Veuve Hérissant
1784
[Boston from a Hot-Air Balloon]
James Wallace Black
1860s
[Stereograph View of a Hot Air Balloon]
Unknown
1850s–60s
Lace panel with decorative motifs of railroad trains, telegraph poles, electric lights and hot air balloons
French
ca. 1900
[Hot-Air Balloon Landing on a Country Road]
Robert Petschow
1920s–30s
“America”: Enjoying Hot Air Balloons
Utagawa Yoshitora
1867
Designs for Top and Four Sides of a Snuffbox with Scenes depicting the Ascent of a Hot Air Balloon
Anonymous, French, 18th century
ca. 1784–89
[Nadar with His Wife, Ernestine, in a Balloon]
Nadar
ca. 1865, printed 1890s
The Third Avenue Railroad Depot
William H. Schenck
ca. 1859–60
Side chair (chais à la reine) (one of a pair)
Georges Jacob
1784
Watch
Daniel Vauchez
ca. 1783–90
Broadsheet relating to the adventures of Don Joaquin Cantolla y Rico who travels in a hot air balloon, crowd of people watching him ascend
José Guadalupe Posada
1902
Broadsheet with a story about a miracle in San Cristobal de las Casas, in upper section a crowd of people watch a man fall from a hot air balloon, in the upper right an image an apparition of Christ
José Guadalupe Posada
ca. 1900–1913
The Perilous Situation of Major Mony, When He Fell into the Sea with His Balloon on the 23rd of July, 1785, Off the Coast of Yarmouth; Most Providentially Discovered and Taken Up by the Argus Sloop, After Having Remained in the Water During Five Hours
John Murphy
June 24, 1789
"Balloon" Shelf Clock
Simon Willard
1780–90
Hot air balloon, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 3) issued by Kinney Bros.
Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company
1889
Hot air balloon, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 4) issued by Kinney Bros.
Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company
1889
Hot air balloon, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 5) issued by Kinney Bros.
Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company
1889
American Balloon Ascension (Amerikakoku)
Utagawa Yoshitora
6th month, 1867
Picture of a Balloon
Miyagi Gengyo
1860
American Balloon Ascension (Amerikakoku)
Utagawa Yoshitora
1867
Rural Sports: Balloon Hunting
Thomas Rowlandson
October 25, 1811
Rural Sports: Balloon Hunting
Thomas Rowlandson
October 25, 1811
Necklace
Robert Venturi
1982–1986
Away with the ballast!, from 'News of the day,' published in "Le Charivari"
Honoré Daumier
August 12, 1869
Flying Cloud with Montgolfier Balloon
Malcolm Morley
1998
Dish with Design of Ascending Balloon
Japan
dated 1797
Illustration of a Balloon Ascending (Fūsen shōyō no zu)
Utagawa Yoshitora
November, 1872
Jules Janin
Nadar
ca. 1856
Tea caddy with cover
Höchst Manufactory
ca. 1785
Mr. Green in the Albion Balloon, Having Ascended from Vauxhall Gardens, August 12, 1842
Anonymous, British, 19th century
ca. 1842
Balloon Ascending Near the Entrance to Lord's Cricket Ground, 1839
Robert Bremmel Schnebbelie
ca. 1839
Four Roses Whiskey: Worth Reaching For
Anton Bruehl
1949
Landscape with a Balloon, from the portfolio Faces
Max Beckmann
1918, published 1919
American Balloon; American Playing Cello; Bamboo
Utagawa Yoshiiku
10th month, 1861
Pair of enamel knobs
British, possibly Birmingham
ca. 1783
Enamel knob
British, possibly Birmingham
ca. 1783