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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.
  • A variety of 6 condoms arranged horizontally in the guise of rockets with a border of lettering incorporating the repeated words '6 proposicións' [6 propositions; advertising the danger of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Elvis López, [1995].
  • A balloon piloted by Charles Green crash-lands on Pirbright Common, Surrey, in 1852. 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • A voluminous woman crossing a bush in a circle of foliage to get to a latrine; perhaps representing Garnerin's London balloon flights of the time. Etching by J. Gillray, 1802.
  • London: aerial view from east to west. Colour aquatint by R. Havell, 1836.
  • A balloon race from London to Hampshire, 1880. Coloured wood engraving, 1880.
  • The ascent of the balloon 'Zenith' above the clouds with its three occupants (Crocé-Spinelli, Tissandier and Sivel) conducting operations, 1875. Coloured wood engraving.