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Rigaud, John Francis, 1742–1810
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Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815
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Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827
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18th century
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laid paper
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Biggin, George (died 1803)
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Lunardi, Vincenzo (1759–1806), balloonist
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Sage, Letitia Anne (née Hoare; ca.1750–1817) first British woman to fly
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Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (The State Hermitage Museum, 2007-10-23 - 2008-01-13)
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Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2007-07-11 - 2007-09-30)
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Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)
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Imaginative Geographies (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-02-01 - 2006-08-18)
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Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)
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Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Royal Academy of Arts, 1978-03-04 - 1978-05-28)
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Rowlandson Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-11-16 - 1978-01-15)
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The Conversation Piece - Arthur Devis & His Contemporaries (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-10-01 - 1980-11-30)
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John Francis Rigaud, 1742–1810
Captain Vincenzo Lunardi with his Assistant George Biggin, and Letitia Anne Sage (née Hoare), in a Balloon
1785
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Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815
Ascension of Madame Sage, Chevalier Biggin and Captain Vincent Lunardi in a Balloon, June 20, 1785
1785
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Thomas Rowlandson, 1756–1827
Travelling in France
between 1785 and 1789