Descente de la machine aerostatique des Srs. Charles et Robert

Print shows Jacques Charles and Marie Noel Robert stepping out of their hydrogen balloon on a plain near Nesle, France after the first manned balloon flight in December of 1783.
Printed text below image: Extrait du proces verbal. Ce Globe fut enlevé le 1st Decembre 1783 à une heure 40 minuits dans le Jardin du Palais des Thuilleries, ...
Landauer Collection of Aeronautical Prints and Drawings.

Braunburg 66; L&W 245; Sotheby 25b
Exhibited: The Princess and the Patriot: Ekaterina Dashkova, Benjamin Franklin and the Age of Enlightenment, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2006-2007.