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An Account of the First Aërial Voyage in England, In a Series of Letters to his Guardian, Chevalier Gherardo Compagni, Written under the Impressions of the various Events that affected the Undertaking
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An Account of the First Aërial Voyage in England, In a Series of Letters to his Guardian, Chevalier Gherardo Compagni, Written under the Impressions of the various Events that affected the Undertaking

Vincenzo Lunardi (Italian, 1759–1806)
Francesco Bartolozzi (Italian, worked in Italy, England, and Portugal, 1728–1815)
1784
Medium/TechniqueIllustrated book with etchings and aquatints
DimensionsOverall: 23 x 14.5 x 1 cm (9 1/16 x 5 11/16 x 3/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of the heirs of Bettina Looram de Rothschild
Accession number2015.73
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ClassificationsIllustrated books
InscriptionsOn half title, in brown ink: V LunardiProvenance1938, Alphonse de Rothschild (b. 1878 - d. 1942) and Clarice de Rothschild (b. 1894 - d. 1967), Vienna; 1938, confiscated from Alphonse and Clarice de Rothschild by Nazi forces [see note 1]; probably about 1948, returned to Clarice de Rothschild, New York; by descent to her daughter, Bettina Looram de Rothschild (b. 1924 - d. 2012); about 1990/1992, given by Bettina Looram de Rothschild to members of her family; 2015, gift of the heirs of Bettina Looram de Rothschild to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 25, 2015)

NOTES:
[1] With the Anschluss, or annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany in March, 1938, the possessions of Alphonse and Clarice de Rothschild were seized and expropriated almost immediately by Nazi forces. The precise fate of this book during the Nazi era is not known, but it was in the possession of Clarice de Rothschild again following World War II.