Engraving on laid paper mounted on laid paper; together with After Étienne Chevalier de Lorimier (1759-1813): Premier Voyage Aerien, engraving with hand-coloring on wove paper; and After Thomas Bankes: Winter Habitations of the Peasants Kamtschatka and Summer Habitations of the Superior People of Kamtschatka, engraving on wove paper; After D. K. Bonatti (active c. 1720-1780): Alaskan Headdresses and Fishing Implements, engraving with hand-coloring on wove paper, indistinctly inscribed in pencil; Continental School: Prosp des Schloffes de Verneuil, engraving in two parts with hand-coloring on wove paper; View of Grocers Hall in the Poultry, engraving on wove paper; and Andre Gill (1840-1885): Guet-Apens and P.P.C. (Voila les vieux partis), two engravings with hand-coloring on newsprint mounted to construction paper.

Ice Skaters 9 3/4 x 11 1/2 in. (image, sheet); Prosp des Schloffes de Verneuil 7 3/8 x 11 3/8 in. (plate); Grocers Hall 3 5/8 x 6 in. (image), 8 x 11 1/2 in. (sheet); Premier Voyage Aerien 7 1/2 x 4 7/8 in. (plate), 9 7/8 x 8 1/2 in. (sheet); Kamtschatka 12 1/4 x 8 1/4 in. (sight, together); Headdresses 7 x 9 1/2 in. (plate), 10 x 14 1/4 in. (sheet); Andre Gill 14 5/8 x 12 1/8 in. (sheet) and 14 3/4 x 12 3/8 in. (sheet), both unframed.

Note: In the late-18th century, advances in technology and transportation allowed people to see the world in entirely new ways. In June of 1783, the Montgolfier brothers launched the first hot air balloon over the town of Annonay in France. Not only did the hot air balloon give artists and geographers a new vantage point from which to understand the lay of the land, the machine itself inspired sartorial and decorative styles like the ballooning Lunardi hat.