Experience du globe aerostatique du MM. Charles et Robert au Jardin des Thuileries le 1er decembre 1783

Print shows Jacques Alexandre César Charles and Marie-Noël Robert riding in the gondola of a balloon ascending from the Tuileries Garden, Paris, France, December 1, 1783 in the first hydrogen balloon flight. (Source: A.G. Renstrom, LC staff, 1981-82.)
Explanatory caption below image begins: "Le meme jour à trois heures trois quarts après midi, la machine Aerostatique est descendue dans une prairie entre Nesle et Hédouville ..."
"Bon Voyage" printed above image.

Tissandier collection.
Exhibited: "The Dream of Flight" : American Treasures of the Library of Congress, 2003-04.
Exhibited: The Princess and the Patriot: Ekaterina Dashkova, Benjamin Franklin and the Age of Enlightenment, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2006-2007.