A hand-coloured decorative slide showing an illustration from Cyrano de Bergerac’s ‘Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon’, dating from 1657. The 'glasses of dew' around his waist allowed Cyrano to float upwards

Date:
1882 - 1892
Reference:
CVS01/01/006
Type:
Photograph (Lantern Slide)
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Description

This slide was used in Cecil Victor Shadbolt's lecture 'Balloons and Ballooning, Upward and Onwards'

Content

This is part of the Series: CVS01/01 Series of lantern slides; within the Collection: CVS01 Cecil Victor Shadbolt Collection

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Creator of Archive: Shadbolt, Cecil Victor