2-645-962 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Ascent of Vincent Lunardi, accompanied by Mrs. Sage and Mr. Biggin', 1785, (1910). Vicenzo Lunardi (1759-1806), was a pioneering Italian aeronaut, born in Lucca, On 29 June 1785 he left from St George's Fields on the south side of the Thames. with his assistant George Biggin and Letitia Ann Sage, the First British Woman to Fly In a Hot Air Balloon. After John Francis Rigaud. From The Connoisseur Vol XXVI. [Otto Limited, London, 1910]