Illustrations of early balloons, c.1800-1966

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Containers:
Folio-Box 29
Component identifier:
File 90
Content Summary:

Includes a colour print by James Gillray, depicting the newly appointed Chancellor of Oxford, Baron Grenville, in a balloon in papal costume. It includes a quote from John Milton's Paradise Lost.

Also includes three Vanity Fair colour illustrations on aviation themes: 'The Deutsch Prize', 901; 'In the clouds', 1904; 'Hastings and aviation', 1910; and four reproductions of early illustrations of balloons, from the Royal Aeronautical Society calendar of 1966.

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Parent Restrictions:
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn742484).
Parent Terms of Access:
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. Copying for research purposes is permitted for material created by E A and V I Crome. Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is generally permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material. Written permission to publish unpublished manuscript material must be obtained from the copyright holder(s).
Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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