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Vincent Lunardi throwing out a little ballast

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URI
https://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/193394
Date
1851
Description
Page from "Punch" magazine with a cartoon satirizing Vincent Lunardi's first ascent in London, made on September 15, 1784. Lunardi is holding a British flag and dumping ballast out over men holding umbrellas, while men and boys hold onto ropes hanging beneath the basket of the balloon.
 
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Subject
Satire, cartoons (humorous images), Balloonists, Punch, Lunardi, Vincent, 1759-1806
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