Aerostatic Globe Balloon,Jacques Charles,Marie Noel Robert,Nesle,Beaumont,France

Title: [The 'Aerostatic globe' balloon, belonging to Jacques Charles and Marie-Noel Robert, descending on the plain of Nesle, near Beaumont, France]
Date Created/Published: [1783?]
Summary: Drawing shows descent of the first manned hydrogen gas balloon flight, which departed from Paris, France on Dec. 1, 1783. Among the spectators in left foreground are the Duke de Chartres and the Duke de Fitz-James.
Notes:
Possibly drawn by Antoine François Sergent-Marceau who engraved a pair of balloon prints 'Expérience de Charles et Robert dans le jardin des Tiuleries, 1 décembre 1783' and 'Descente de l'aérostat dans la prairie de Nesles.'
'This part only, engraved by Sergent' and 'Sergent, del., et sculp. aqua forti' typed on accompanying note.
Title from accompanying note.
Tissandier collection.
Subjects:
Charles, Jacques Alexandre César,--1746-1823.
Robert, M. N.--(Marie-Noël),--1761-1826.
Balloon ascensions--France--1780-1790.
Balloons (Aircraft)--France--1780-1790.
Spectators--France--1780-1790.
Graphite drawings--1780-1790.
Bookmark /2002735670/
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