Aerial view of the Kremlin, Moscow, USSR, from a Zeppelin Size:XL: 120 x 80cm 'Noah's Ark'

'Noah's Ark'

The author explained that this print was intended to be viewed alongside plate 3 in his book ['A balloon prospect from above the clouds'] since it 'elucidates the former by giving the names of the principal places mentioned in the excursion

by the help of fire'

France opposed this suggestion

The son of the novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Aerial view of the Kremlin, Moscow, USSR, from a Zeppelin Size:XL: 120 x 80cm 'Noah's Ark'Aerial view of the Kremlin, Moscow, USSR, from a Zeppelin, 1930 (1933). A photograph from Zeppelin Weltfahrten, Vom ersten Luftschiff 1899 bis zu den Fahrten des LZ127 Graf Zeppelin 1932, Dresden, 1933.