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Graphic Arts

Graphic Arts
Firestone Library
One Washington Road
Princeton, NJ 08540
609-258-3184
Graphic Arts Librarian
609-258-3197

The McCormick Collection of Aeronautical Illustrations, 1783-1898 (GC014) consists of approximately 300 prints and drawings dealing with the first attemps at ballooning and air transportation collected by McCormick (Class of 1895). The collection includes cartoons, caricatures, pen-and-ink drawings, etchings and engravings. Among the artists represented are: George Cruikshank, Isaac Robert Cruikshank and Thomas Rowlandson. Individual print records can be found in the Library catalog and the Visuals Database.  

See also the following Graphic Arts blog post: McCormick Ballon Print Collection.