An aerial collision between a Baby Nieuport and a German Rumpler [Lithograph of painting by Lieutenant Henri Farré]

Lithograph of a painting by Lieutenant Henri Farré featuring an aerial collision between two biplanes, circa 1914-1918. Part of a series of eight lithographs depicting World War I aerial imagery.

Typed caption: "An aerial collision between a Baby Nieuport and a German Rumpler. The German plane had been in the habit of coming over the French Trenches for photographs and had always returned safely to its lines. On this day three French airplanes attacked the Boche on his return. Quartermaster de Terline, arriving at the proper altitude, noticed that his two companions had been forced to abandon the pursuit -- from motor trouble, as it happened. Terline, thinking his two comrades wounded, dashed at his adversary 3,500 feet above the earth and sent the German machine crashing to the ground. From a painting by Lieut. Henri Farré."

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