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The air balloon or a trip to the moon.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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The air balloon or a trip to the moon.
Description
English: A circular globe floating in the air just above the heads of three standing spectators. A witch on a broom-stick (left) flies with her back to the balloon at which she directs a blast, labelled 'Inflammable Air', from her posteriors; she is suckling a cat which sits on the broom-stick. A man standing below (left) holds a torch in the 'Inflammable Air' saying "How blue it burns". On the right two men look up at the balloon. One, in profile to the left, wearing pigtail queue, looped hat, and ruffled shirt, says "We shall now have a Lunatick Journal". The letters 'F.R.S.' inscribed at his feet show that he is a Fellow of the Royal Society. Behind him is a more plainly dressed man wearing a bob-wig and no hat; he holds up a card saying "I've a card for ye Georgium Sidus"; he is A.S.S. 2 November 1783
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Date 1783
date QS:P571,+1783-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
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Height: 249 millimetres
Width: 355 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.5049
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935)

One of a number of satires on balloon-ascents, see BMSat 6333, &c. The 'Georgium Sidus' was the planet (afterwards renamed Uranus) discovered by Sir W. Herschel in 1781 and so named by him in honour of George III. 'D.N.B.'
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5049
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