“A Balloon-Prospect from Above the Clouds”, from Thomas Baldwin's Airopaidia (1786) — first image of a truly overhead aerial view (as actually experienced).
More in @LilyRFord's essay exploring how balloon flight transformed our ideas of landscape: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/for-the-sake-of-the-prospect-experiencing-the-world-from-above-in-the-late-18th-century
