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At caelum certe patet

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VBI-000492-001_sv.jpg

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1.38 MB

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JPEG

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a1553cf60a06ac225a2a8b5f04ca5c3e

Date
1821-1857
Description
Image of balloon with "Inent-Green-le-co" visibly printed across it and carrying three men and a woman (one man is sitting on the rail above the basket). A fragment of a second line of printing is also visible below the first: "...elum certe patet...." Possibly part of a quote from Ovid's Metamorphoses, "At caelum certe patet; ibimus illac" [en: 'But the sky certainly lies open; we shall go that way']. One of the men and the woman are waving flags, and an anchor is suspended below the basket. Charles George Green is handwritten in the lower right corner.
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Still Image
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No Copyright - United States
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