| dc.creator | Fores, S.W. | en_US |
| dc.date | 1784 March 2 | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-01-28T16:33:31Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-01-28T16:33:31Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1784 | en_US |
| dc.identifier | VBI_000474 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/193448 | |
| dc.description | Satirical etching depicting Joseph Montgolfier sitting in the clouds blowing soap bubbles with a pipe, fantasizing that his aerial inventions will help France conquer British Gibraltar. He is balancing a bubble on the pipe while pointing to one particular bubble. Underneath is written his imagined monologue: '0 by Gar, dis be de grand invention. Dis will immortalise my king, my country, and myself/We will declare the war against our enimie; we will made des English quake, by Gar/We will inspect their camp, we will intercept their fleet, and we will set fire to their dock-yards/and, by Gar, we will take Gibraltar, in de air-balloon; and when we have/conquered d'English, den we conquer de other countrie, and make them all colonie/to de Grande Monarque.' | en_US |
| dc.description | For more information about this item, visit https://archivesspace.mit.edu/repositories/2/digital_objects/740 | en_US |
| dc.language | eng | en_US |
| dc.rights | No Copyright - United States | en_US |
| dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/ | en_US |
| dc.subject | Caricatures and cartoons | en_US |
| dc.subject | Clouds in art | en_US |
| dc.subject | balloons (toys) | en_US |
| dc.subject | Satire | en_US |
| dc.subject | Balloonists | en_US |
| dc.subject | Soap bubbles | en_US |
| dc.subject | Montgolfier, Joseph-Michel, 1740-1810 | en_US |
| dc.title | Montgolfier in the Clouds-Constructing of Air Balloons for the Grande Monarque | en_US |
| dc.type | Still Image | en_US |
| dc.publisher.institution | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Libraries. Department of Distinctive Collections | en_US |
| dc.type.genre | prints (visual works) | |
| dc.contributor.display | publisher: Fores, S.W. | en_US |
