75/5401 [Ballooning]. "Embrâsement déplorable de la Machine Aérostatique des Srs. Miolan en Janinet le dimanche 11 Juillet 1784. Contemp. handcol. engraving, 30x39,8 cm., engr. French caption below, Paris, J. Chereau.

- Doubled; margins cut sl. short; sm. repaired tear at lower margin; a few (sm.) stains, twice in image; some fingersoiling/ duststaining.

= The caricaturesque print ridicules the attempt of Abbé Miolan and Janinet to ascend in a hot air balloon on July 11, 1784 at the Luxembourg gardens in Paris. Abbé Miollan and Janinet, respectively depicted as a cat and an ass, walk away as the fire is being fought. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXII.