code Related

[Comic scene involving balloons and people surveying the Moon]

description

Summary

Print shows illustration relating to the Great Moon Hoax with people spying on human-bat creatures on the Moon as other people are transported between Earth and the Moon by way of a balloon basket.

Landauer Collection of Aeronautical Prints and Drawings.

Accession box no. DLC/PP-1964:R01 c37.6

Retro-Futurism​ and Vintage [Science] Fiction Images Collection Retrofuturism is a movement in the creative arts showing the influence of depictions of the future produced in an earlier era. If futurism is sometimes called a "science" bent on anticipating what will come, retrofuturism is the remembering of that anticipation.

label_outline

Tags

great moon hoax fantasy balloons aircraft extraterrestrial life supernatural beings lithographs italian comic scene comic scene balloons people moon 1835 finding our place in the cosmos from galileo to sagan and beyond f wenzel rare books engraving book illustrations prints public domain comics
date_range

Date

01/01/1835
person

Contributors

Wenzel, F., artist
collections

in collections

Retro-Futurism & Science Fiction

Vintage Science Fiction Collection
create

Source

Library of Congress
link

Link

http://www.loc.gov/
copyright

Copyright info

No known restrictions on publication.

label_outline Explore Great Moon Hoax, Supernatural Beings

Topics

great moon hoax fantasy balloons aircraft extraterrestrial life supernatural beings lithographs italian comic scene comic scene balloons people moon 1835 finding our place in the cosmos from galileo to sagan and beyond f wenzel rare books engraving book illustrations prints public domain comics