Anno a Christi natiuitate 1525. Tertio Kal'. Apriles.
Call Number:
1976 +325
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Description:
Each map is printed across two leaves of plates. Maps 1 to 49 are numbered and have text on recto of initial leaf; final map is unnumbered, has no text on recto of initial leaf., Imprint information from colophon (leaf Q8 recto)., Index ([68] p., third group) bound at end, after maps., Signatures: A-M⁶ N⁴ 0-P⁶ Q⁸ a-e⁶ f⁴., and Variant order of binding: index precedes maps. Autograph of Giovanni Battista Francino.
Publisher:
Iohannes Grieningerus, communibus Iohannis Koberger impensis excudebat,
Subject (Name):
Francino, Giovanni Battista,--1631-1698--Autograph. and Regiomontanus, Joannes, 1436-1476.
Title from caption below image., Text below title: E tabula Guidonis Reni, in Pinacotheca Domini De Montriblou armigeri conservata., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Egypt.
Subject (Name):
Cleopatra, Queen, consort of Juba II, King of Mauretania, 40 B.C.-
"A companion print to British Museum Satires nos. 6700, 6701, 6703. An enormous balloon not completely inflated rests on a platform suspended between two masts; it is exploding, flames and thick clouds of smoke pour from a crease in its contour, a number of men with faggots on their backs run from the balloon, others are on the platform, which is covered by a large cloth or net which hangs in folds. In the air (left), as if having sprung from the exploding part of the balloon, is a small balloon in the form of a head, identical with that in British Museum Satires No. 6704, with the same inscription and passenger. From it streams, in place of a rope, the tail of a kite. This evidently represents the bursting of Keegan's balloon in the garden of Foley House. A circle of posts with a rope keeps the spectators, who are fashionably dressed, from the balloon. Two men inside the barrier (right), probably Blanchard and Sheldon, who was to be pilot (see British Museum Satires No. 6703) run towards the balloon shouting directions through speaking-trumpets. In the foreground is one of the small balloons which were commonly sent up on the occasion of an ascent, cf. British Museum Satires No. 6668. In the background are trees. A number of spectators watch from the top of the high garden-wall (left). [Foley House was noted for its extremely high wall. 'Town and Country Magazine' xvi, 625] Behind are houses, evidently those in or near Portland Place. Sheldon's projected ascent ended in disaster on 25 Sept. 1784. He attempted to fill a balloon more than three times the size of Lunardi's by heated or rarefied air produced by a furnace suspended below the balloon. The balloon was supported on two masts and on a platform; it burst while it was being filled. See 'London Chronicle', Sept. 24, 28, 29. Except for the contour of the balloon which appears to burlesque human posteriors, and for the little balloon in the shape of a fool's head, this is probably a realistic rendering of the scene, see British Museum Satires No. 6703."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Matted to 33 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre, 1753-1809., Sheldon, John, 1752-1808., and Lunardi, Vincent, 1759-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Balloons (Aircraft), Aircraft accidents, Fires, and Spectators
Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280 Arnaldus, de Villanova, d. 1311 Campesius, Ioan. Anto. Johannes, de Rupescissa, ca. 1300-ca. 1365. Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316 Ulstadius, Philippus
Published / Created:
1572
Call Number:
Mellon Alchemical 40
Image Count:
2
Alternative Title:
Coelum philosophorum
Publisher:
Apud Gulielmum Rouillium
Subject (Topic):
Alchemy --Early works to 1800 and Chemistry --Early works to 1800