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Image Title: Utilite Particuliere, Du Vaisseau Volant Divers Utilites, Du Vaisseau Volant., 1782

Date: 1782

Summary: Two songs illustrated with humorous pictures of men using flying machines for various purposes. The left panel shows a man fleeing from his creditors, while the four vignettes to the right depict a clergyman, astronomer, and two other men using the airship for noble pursuits. Satirizes Jean Pierre Blanchard's ca. 1782 design for a "vaisseau volant," an airship that was never flown.

Subjects: Air travel--1780-1790
Airships--1780-1790
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre,--1753-1809--Associated objects

Original Media: Etching

Collections: Tissandier Collection » more info...

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