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  • Ballooning: hydrogen barrels and other equipment used in ballooning. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1803.
  • Ballooning: four figures. Coloured engraving by Garner.
  • Signed ticket for Blanchard Balloon Ascent 1784.
  • Contemporary engraving of Blanchard's Balloon Ascent 1784.
  • Men filling a balloon with hydrogen. Coloured etching.
  • A red balloon with a red label attached floats above a group of further balloons with the message in French: "Sponsor a balloon. Send a message"; an advertisement for a fundraising balloon event at Paris Champs de Mars on Saturday 28 October1995 to help combat AIDS by VLS (Vaincre le SIDA). Colour lithograph.
  • Paris seen from a balloon. Coloured lithograph, 1846, by J. Arnout.
  • Men travelling in hot-air balloons by night. Coloured wood engraving.
  • A balloon race from London to Hampshire, 1880. Coloured wood engraving, 1880.
  • A hot-air balloon in flight with a fire burning. Coloured engraving.
  • Orléans seen from a balloon. Coloured lithograph by Jules Arnout after himself.
  • Rouen seen from a balloon. Coloured lithograph by J. Arnout after himself.
  • Women are making the nets, baskets and balloons for hot-air balloons, they are being inspected by men in top hats. Wood engraving by WBM after W.I.P.S. (?).
  • Le Havre seen from a balloon. Coloured lithograph by Jules Arnout after himself.
  • A hot-air balloon leaves the ground in driving rain. Coloured wood engraving.
  • The Great Industrial Exhibition, Dublin, 1853: a hot-air balloon flies above. Lithograph.
  • A large hot-air balloon with a basket carrying many people. Wood engraving.
  • A balloon is drifting away from the land towards the sea. Coloured wood engraving.
  • Chinese people playing with hot air balloons. Brush drawing by Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • A man on horseback suspended from a hot-air balloon. Lithograph after Gustave Janet.
  • A balloon piloted by Charles Green crash-lands on Pirbright Common, Surrey, in 1852. Coloured wood engraving.
  • Westminster and surrounding areas of London seen from a balloon. Coloured lithograph by Jules Arnout after himself.
  • Hot-air balloons with some extra equipment, and a winged horse with a rider. Engraving by Lodge.
  • A hydrogen balloon flying high above the clouds with the sun shining on it. Coloured wood engraving.
  • 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 man flying above a church with wings and balloons attached to him. Coloured wood engraving, 1877.
  • A man flying above a church with wings and balloons attached to him. Coloured wood engraving, 1877.
  • A man with a balloon and rudders strapped to him. Engraving by P. Rothwell after De Bruyn.
  • A balloon flies over a park with marquees and bunting where crowds of people are gathered. Coloured lithograph.