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21.
Description of the Grand National Jubilee, held in St. James's, Hyde, and the Green Parks, on

Published / Created:
[approximately 1 August 1814]
Call Number:
814.08.01.04+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Letterpress broadside with a description of the Grand National Jubilee of 1814 surrounded by eight woodcut views (clockwise from top): The Temple; The Pagoda on Fire; The Jubilee Balloon; The Enemy on Fire; Sham Fight on the Serpentine; Boarding an American; The Royal Booth; The Castle
Description:
Title from first line of text below image. and "Price sixpence plain, or one shilling coloured"--Price below imprint.
Publisher:
Printed and published by John Fairburn, Jun. Fountain Court, Minories
Subject (Geographic):
England, London, London., and London (England)
Subject (Topic):
Festivals, Fireworks, Buildings, Temporary, Parks, Balloons (Aircraft), Historical pageants, Ships, and Temples
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Description of the Grand National Jubilee, held in St. James's, Hyde, and the Green Parks, on Monday 1st August, 1814

22.
Destruction of the Victoria & Albert balloon on Monday evening June 16th 1851. [graphic]

Published / Created:
[18 June 1851?]
Call Number:
851.00.00.24
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., and Two lines of text below title: Severely injuring Mr. & Mrs. Graham the acronauts and doing damage to the house of Colonel North, No. 16 Arlington Street, Piccadilly, to the extent of upwards of £300.
Publisher:
Published June 18th by Ackermann & Co., 96 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Balloons (Aircraft) and Fires
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Destruction of the Victoria & Albert balloon on Monday evening June 16th 1851. [graphic]

23.
New principles, or, The march of invention [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1830?]
Call Number:
830.00.00.83+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
On the right a steam-driven coach has exploded with the passengers thrown into the air. A hot air balloons with baskets shaped as a boat and the other as a carraige float above the trees. On the left a conventional carriage "Patent Safety Coach" with advertisements about insurance on the windows speeds away, man in the coach looking back in horror
Alternative Title:
March of invention
Description:
Title etched below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: 1829.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Accidents, Airships, Balloons (Aircraft), Insurance, and Steam automobiles
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > New principles, or, The march of invention [graphic].

24.
Original air balloon [graphic].

Published / Created:
[29 December 1783]
Call Number:
783.12.29.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An air balloon inscribed, "America," floats above a group of spectators who include, on the left, a Spaniard and a Frenchman, tied together with a chain and padlock and, on the right, a Dutchman with little devils climbing out of his pocket. Between them stands Franklin. In the background, Charles Fox and Lord North dance merrily to a tune played by the devil who is identified as 'Director general.' Next to them, a number of people vomit under a heavy block inscribed, "Opression taxes," on which stands the gallows with the corpses of 'trade,' 'wealth,' and 'liberty' hanging from it. In the balloon's basket are Washington, with two faces, stretching his arms towards the ghost of Cromwell, and Silas Deane, shaking at the sight of the ghost of "John the Painter" (James Aitken). Numbered figures are identified by references above the image
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate "No. 8" in lower right below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. as [the] act directs Decr. 29, 1783 by G. Humphrey, No. 48 Long Acre
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790., Washington, George, 1732-1799., Deane, Silas, 1737-1789., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658., and Aitken, James, 1752-1777.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Balloons (Aircraft), Demonology, Gallows, and Ghosts
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Original air balloon [graphic].

25.
Rob[ert] Cocking The ascent of the Royal Nassau Balloon with the parachute attached, 24th July 1837

Published / Created:
[July 1837]
Call Number:
837.07.24.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Titles from text below images., Design composed of three images on one sheet, each individually titled., and Description based on imperfect impression; sheet damaged with partial loss of text below center image. Missing letters supplied in pencil in an unknown hand.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Cocking, Robert, 1776-1837,
Subject (Topic):
Balloons (Aircraft), Parachutes, and Accidents
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Rob[ert] Cocking The ascent of the Royal Nassau Balloon with the parachute attached, 24th July 1837 ; This sketch exhibits the parachute with Mr. Cocking in the three stages of the descent. [graphic]

26.
Second bravery of Philippe the Fiery-Faced, Duc' of Orxxxn's, or, Justification of the first effort

Published / Created:
[4 August 1790]
Call Number:
790.08.04.03+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Justification of the first effort of his Royal Highness's courage
Description:
Title from item., Attributed to Gillray in an unverified card catalog record., One line of text below title: When the Duc' had ascended in the balloon forty or fifty feet from the Earth in the greatest fright he desired to go down ..., Companion print to: The battle of Ouessan between the English & French fleets., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Watermark., and Matted to 47 x 63 cm.
Publisher:
Publishd Augt. 4th 1790 by J. Aitken, Castle Street, Leicester Field
Subject (Name):
Orléans, Louis Philippe Joseph, duc d', 1747-1793, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Subject (Topic):
Balloons (Aircraft)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Second bravery of Philippe the Fiery-Faced, Duc' of Orxxxn's, or, Justification of the first effort of his Royal Highness's courage [graphic].

27.
Solomon in the clouds!! [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1 April 1784]
Call Number:
784.04.01.04+
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
George III is held high in the air by Thurlow, on the left, and Pitt and Temple, on the right, who are all floating above the ground with the help of air balloons. The King, frowning and clenching his right fist, is emitting a strong blast of foul air inscribed, "proclamation for dissolution from a broad bottom" that covers in a large cloud the House of Commons below. A large group of men stands on the side of the building, among them Fox, North, and Burke, watching the cloud. On the other side of the House, the muzzled British Lion lies on the ground "asleep." A satire on the dissolution of the Parliament on March 25.
Alternative Title:
Solomon in the clouds
Description:
Title from item. and Mounted to 37 x 29 cm.
Publisher:
Pub'd 1st April, 1784 by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806., Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, Marquess of, 1753-1813., Pitt, William, 1759-1806., and Great Britain Parliament
Subject (Topic):
Dissolution, Politics and government, Flatulence, Balloons (Aircraft), Clothing & dress, and Lions
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Solomon in the clouds!! [graphic].

28.
Tentand via est qua me quoque possim tollere humo. Virgil, Geor He steers his flight aloft

Published / Created:
[not before 8 August 1810]
Call Number:
Folio 75 W87 807 v.1
Collection Title:
V. 1. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A sequel to No. 11384. A fantastic scene in Oxford representing Grenville's installation as Chancellor, which took place at Commemoration, 3 July 1810. Grenville rises in a balloon above a vast applauding crowd; his inflated and spherical posterior fits into the shallow bowl which forms the car. He wears a papal tiara and his Chancellor's gown; a large cross is on his posterior. He extends his arms horizontally, scattering symbolical objects. These are (left): a Cardinal's hat, a rosary, a mitre set in a ducal coronet, and a book, 'Liber Regis . . . Oxford . . .'; (right): three books: 'Letter to the Earl of Fingal'; 'Irish Mass Book'; 'Liber Valorum'. The spherical gas-bag of the balloon represents an inflated Lord Temple, the crown of the head at the summit, with upturned profile in the arc just below (left); shoes emerge from the opposite pole; from the posterior issues a tail or cloud, streaming upward, inscribed 'Promisses'. The car, decorated with Popish emblems, the Host between winged heads, hangs from cords suspended from a net covering the balloon. Three bishops, seated on asses which crouch in neighing obeisance towards Grenville, reach up eagerly towards the Cardinal's hat, &c. They are in back view, and in the foreground on the extreme left. Behind them is part of the Radcliffe Camera, the greater part being cut off by the left margin. By the door is a placard: 'Order'd That No Doctor of Laws shall be admitted without Bag Wig'. Two men are leaving the building: Lord George Grenville, followed by (?) Thomas Grenville. [Not Windham (as Wright and Evans say) who died in June. Lord Holland says Lord Grenville, but he does not resemble him, and his double appearance is unlikely.] The Marquis of Buckingham looks from the principal window under the dome; Lord Stafford leans from a smaller window below. All four wear bag-wigs and gowns. On a projection above the door stands a chicken with the head of M. A. Taylor (the 'Chick of Law', see No. 6777) puffing a blast up at the balloon. Spectacled and bewigged owls perch on the balustrade surrounding the dome. In the foreground on the right is a large group, many of whom wear doctor's gowns with black masks over their features, tied over bag-wigs that perch awkwardly on their heads. Three of them wave their mortar-board caps towards the balloon: Erskine, Tierney (without a mask and especially deferential), and Lord Holland, his face completely blackened by a mask and wearing a mob-cap. Behind (right) are Lord Grey, Sidmouth holding a clyster-pipe behind his back (cf. No. 9849), Lord Cholmondeley, whose wig is back to front and tilted tipsily over one eye, and Whitbread, who clutches his mortarboard in both hands. In front little Lord Lansdowne capers, holding up the brush and shovel of a chimney-sweep (as Lord Henry Petty he was satirized as an inveterate dancer, cf. No. 10589). Next him, but walking off to the right, is Sheridan, who, unlike the others, does not wear a gown and bag-wig, but is naked except for tattered Harlequin trousers (cf. No. 9916), shoes, and ruffles fastened round his wrists to indicate genteel poverty; he clutches his head with a despairing gesture. In the foreground on the extreme right. Dr. Crowe, the Public Orator, sits on the ground, leaning against a milestone with closed eyes and a contented smile; beside him are an overturned tankard inscribed 'Whitbread Entire' [cf. No. 10421], and papers, 'Oratio Croweiana', which a dog is befouling. The stone is inscribed [blank] 'Miles from Oxford to Rome'. The middle distance is filled with a dense crowd of spectators, receding into a sea of heads. Those in front are doctors in red gowns bowing low as Grenville ascends. In front of the crowd Sir W. W. Wynn and his two brothers (Grenville's nephews), sit together in a little chaise drawn by three galloping Welsh goats (as in No. 9760); they wear bag-wigs and gowns and raise their caps to Grenville. One of the goats gallops over a prostrate man in doctor's wig and gown. A bishop (the Archbishop of York) drives through the crowd (left to right) in an open barouche; he doffs his mitre; the coachman and three fat footmen standing behind wave their cocked hats. The crowd surrounds a wooden booth (left) and a high wagon which serves as platform for a rustic family group to view the display. The booth is placarded: 'Wonder of the World the biggest Flying Elephant in the Whole Fair'. Inside it, tiny figures peer at the posterior of a vast elephant with little wings and the head of Grenville. The background is a fantastic view of Oxford towers, which resembles, and is perhaps based on, a drawing by Rowlandson (reproduced, C. Hobhouse, 'Oxford', 1939, p. 60). The crowd fills a space between the Radcliffe Camera and the wall of All Souls abutting (right) on the west end of the Chapel. Behind (left) is the cupola over the gate of All Souls with (right) Hawkesmoor's twin towers flanking a 'Popish' cross. Tom Tower, Christ Church, much heightened and enlarged (right), behind the chapel, flies a Popish flag decorated with tiara and keys, and is traversed from top to bottom by a great fissure. Bats and carrion birds fly round it. Below the design: '-He steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air That felt unusual weight,-Par, Lost, Lib: I. l, 225-'"--British Museum online catalgoue
Alternative Title:
He steers his flight aloft, incumbent on the dusky air that felt unusual weight. Par. Lost and Tentanda via est qua me quoque possim tollere humo. Virgil, Geor. ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Date based on publication date of the original print by Gillray, of which this is a reduced copy. Cf. No. 11570 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8., Plate numbered "34" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 1., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Leaf 93 in volume 1.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Grenville, William Wyndham Grenville, Baron, 1759-1834, Nugent, George Nugent Grenville, Baron, 1788-1850, Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of, 1780-1863, Wynn, Charles Watkin Williams, 1775-1850, Wynn, Henry Watkin William, 1783-1856, Taylor, Michael Angelo, 1757-1834, Erskine, Thomas Erskine, Baron, 1750-1823, Harcourt, Edward, 1757-1847, Fingall, Arthur James Plunkett, Earl of, 1759-1836, Crowe, William, 1745-1829, Cleaver, William, 1742-1815, Randolph, John, 1749-1813, Grenville, Thomas, 1755-1846, Holland, Henry Richard Vassall, Baron, 1773-1840, Whitbread, Samuel, 1764-1815, Tierney, George, 1761-1830, Sutherland, George Granville Leveson-Gower, Duke of, 1758-1833, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Cholmondeley, George James Cholmondeley, Marquess of, 1749-1827, and Moss, Charles, 1763-1811
Subject (Topic):
Balloons (Aircraft) and Crowds
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Tentand via est qua me quoque possim tollere humo. Virgil, Geor He steers his flight aloft, incumbent on the dusky air that felt unusual weight. Par. Lost. [graphic]

29.
The Chinese pagoda and bridge erected over the canal in St. James's Park, for the Grand Jubilee of

Published / Created:
[9 September 1814]
Call Number:
814.09.09.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
View of the pagoda and bridge in St. James's Park, both in Chinese style, with the pagoda in the centre of the bridge and two small turrets on either side, boats on the water below with passengers embarking to the left, tents on each side of the canal flying the various flags of the Allies, numerous figures throughout the scene, a hot air balloon in the sky above
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered "162" in upper right corner., and Titled 'View of the Chinese Pagoda and Bridge erected over th Canal in St. James's Park.' in the Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc., forming the geographical and topographical collection attached to the Library of his late Majesty King George the third, etc, London, 1829.
Publisher:
Published Septr. 9, 1814, by James Whittle & Richard Holmes Laurie, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
Saint James's Park (London, England),, London (England), England, London., and London
Subject (Topic):
Parks, Fireworks, Bridges, Canals, Canal boats, Tents, Flags, and Balloons (Aircraft)
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The Chinese pagoda and bridge erected over the canal in St. James's Park, for the Grand Jubilee of the 1st of August 1814. [graphic]

30.
The Montgolsier [sic], a first rate of the French aerial navy [graphic]

Published / Created:
the 25th of October 1783. and [approximately 1868?]
Call Number:
Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Leaf 28. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A Frenchman, in profile to the left, seated on a globe. To the globe are fixed vertical rods, the upper ends of which terminate in four smaller globes which are thus supported above the principal one; chains link these four globes to a fifth globe above, and slightly longer than, the other four. On this fifth globe is a child from whose bare posteriors six balls are being projected. On two (right) of the four globes are the heads of an ass, and of a man wearing a fool's cap; to their jaws are attached reins which are held by the Frenchman whose right hand is extended in the attitude of an orator. On the third globe is a monkey's head, which more resembles that of a sheep; the fourth globe is blank. The intention of the satire is explained by the inscription beneath the title, 'A F------t ------An Ass------ A Fool------A Monkey------A Nothing'. On the large globe on which the aeronaut sits is a cannon, its muzzle projecting upwards and to the left beyond the contour of the globe. In the centre is the winged head of a bald and bearded man in profile to the left. Below is the stern and part of the side of a man-of-war, with cannon projecting from port-holes."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Montgolsier, a first rate of the French aerial navy and Montgolfier, a first rate of the French aerial navy
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], and On leaf 28 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Pub by E. Dachery, N. 11 St. James's Street [i.e. Field & Tuer] and Field & Tuer
Subject (Name):
Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 6333 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Subject (Topic):
Balloons (Aircraft) and Cannons
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The Montgolsier [sic], a first rate of the French aerial navy [graphic]

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