Degen's Flying Machine, Ornithopter early aircraft - an illustration from "Bilderbush fur Kinder" by F. J. Bertush, 1807 art print poster canvas gift Size:Medium poster (or Canvas) 11.7x13.5 inches / 29.7x34.2 cm from 1837 to 1901

from 1837 to 1901

and was later made Baron Nelson of the Nile and proclaimed a hero across Europe

"From the Original Picture painted by Order of the Civil and Military Servants of the Honourable East India Company

sheet 1 (map plate 28)

Degen's Flying Machine, Ornithopter early aircraft - an illustration from "Bilderbush fur Kinder" by F. J. Bertush, 1807 art print poster canvas gift Size:Medium poster (or Canvas) 11.7x13.5 inches / 29.7x34.2 cm from 1837 to 1901Degen's Flying Machine Ornithopter aircraft Flying Machine ornithopter built by Jacob Degen, a clockmaker from Vienna. Iconic hand coloured engraved illustration for a "Picture Book for Children" (Bilderbush fur Kinder), published by Friedrich Johann Bertush in Weimar, Germany, in 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertush (1747 1822) was a German publisher and patron of arts. His famous encyclopaedia for children included 12 volumes and over 1200 engraved plates