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  • A line of hot-air balloons loaded with boxes advertise "A. Stevens" as they travel over a line of sailing ships. Wood engraving.
  • The basket of a balloon with two men inside, and an engine with propellors. Wood engraving by E.A Tilly.
  • The balloon "Royal Victoria" being launched at night by Charles Green at Vauxhall Gardens, London, watched by crowds of people. Wood engraving by Dalziel Brothers, 1878.
  • Four commedia dell'arte characters are raising a balloon by winching it up with ropes. Process print.
  • Large crowds of people have gathered to watch a hot-air balloon take off. Coloured wood engraving.
  • A hydrogen balloon flying high above the clouds with the sun shining on it. Coloured wood engraving.
  • French savants huddled together at the top of a column, while a band of Bedouin Arabs set fire to it below; exaggerating the troubled experience of the 'Commission des Sciences et des Arts' during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • International Airship Exhibition, Frankfurt, 1909: a Zeppelin airship, an aeroplane and two balloons airborne over the exhibition site. Process print.
  • Men on horseback with swords are chasing a balloon in the sky. Coloured wood engraving by Smeeton after Forrvielle.
  • The view from a balloon on a flight over southern England in 1881. Coloured wood engraving after W.B. Murray, 1881.
  • The ascent of the balloon 'Zenith' above the clouds with its three occupants (Crocé-Spinelli, Tissandier and Sivel) conducting operations, 1875. Coloured wood engraving.