EditorialAn elaborate temple decorated with flags, paintings and fountains; parkland in the distance . A PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF THE REVOLVING TEMPLE OF CONCORD : Invented by SIR WILLIAM CONGREVE, Bart And Erected in the GREEN PARK for the Display of A GRAND FIREWO...
EditorialA view of the firework display in St James' Park on 27th April 1749 to mark the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle 7th October 1748. A VIEW OF THE PUBLIC FIRE WORKS EXHIBITED ON OCCASION OF THE GENERAL PEACE CONCLUDED OCT. 7. 1748. [London], [around 1749]. Mezzo...
EditorialThe Temple of Concord. An Historical Memento, representing the different. Edward Orme: London, 1814. The Revolving Temple of Concord illuminated, as erected in the park in celebration of the glorious peace of 1814'. A firework display. Image taken fro...
EditorialAn elaborate temple decorated with flags, paintings and fountains; parkland in the distance . A PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF THE REVOLVING TEMPLE OF CONCORD : Invented by SIR WILLIAM CONGREVE, Bart And Erected in the GREEN PARK for the Display of A GRAND FIREWO...
EditorialA night scene in Covent Garden with St Paul's on the right, a column in the centre and fireworks everywhere. A Perfect Description of the Firework in Covent Garden that was performd at the Charge of the Gentry and other inhabitants of that Parish, for ...
EditorialFirework display on the River Elbe behind the Holl?ndisches Palais on 10 September 1719. Date/Period: 1683 - 1738. Print. Etching. Height: 625 mm (24.60 in); Width: 855 mm (33.66 in).
EditorialJoseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797). English painter. Firework Display at the Castel Sant Angelo in Rome (La Girandola), 1779. The State Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg. Russia.
EditorialFireworks display held on the Pont-Neuf, Paris, in 1745. Each year, the firework manufacturers held the event on St. Louis' day, August 25. Lithograph from Paul Lacroix' The Eighteenth Century: Its Institutions, Customs, and Costumes, London, 1876.
EditorialPageantry. A green man or monstrous wilde man holding a large firework from 1635. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Chatto and Windus, London, 1876.