An aerial flight : a new song
An aerial flight is a humorous English song sheet with piano accompaniment, composed by C. Smith, lyrics credited to A High Witness, published in London by Jefferys & Nelson around the 1840s for parlour performance. Its central illustration crowds a cluster of tumbling figures, some holding umbrellas, into a wind-blown oval vignette with loose lithographic line and sketchy shading, a lively model for designers wanting comic motion and swirling crowd composition.
