"View in Green Park, the structure in question central in the view, Buckingham House beyond on the left, a few more buildings and rolling country side in the background, a number of fashionably dressed figures in foreground"--British Museum online cat...
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Veüe perspective du batiment magnifique, erigé dans le Parc Verd pour le Feu f'Artifice Royal exhibé le 27 d'Avril 1749, sur l'occasion de le paix general
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Title from caption below image.
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Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill
"A neo-classical façade with the royal arms at the top, three openings, the centre one arched, with a statue of Peace, Neptune and Mars below it, a double staircase leading up to it and a balustraded arcade extending to either side, ending in small lo...
View of the Temple of Concord at night, the classicizing structure with a large central edifice and a terrace, heavily decorated with ornate classical imagery, fireworks in the sky above; crowds in the foreground observing the scene through the extens...
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Title etched below image.
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Published Septr. 9, 1814, by James Whittle & Richard Holmes Laurie, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
Green Park (London, England),, England, London, London (England), and London.
"View at night of the structure erected for the firework display in St James's Park in 1749, showing the fireworks in action."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
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View of the public fireworks exhibited on occasion of the general peace concluded October 7, 1748
A young tightrope walker balances herself as she walks across the wire high above a crowd a fashionable dressed crowd of men, women, and children in a large field surrounded by trees. A fireworks display brightens the sky as the sun sets behind the t...
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Published May 18, 1822, by Thos. Kelly, 27 Paternoster Row
Letterpress broadside with a description of the Grand National Jubilee of 1814 surrounded by eight woodcut views (clockwise from top): The Temple; The Pagoda on Fire; The Jubilee Balloon; The Enemy on Fire; Sham Fight on the Serpentine; Boarding an Am...
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Printed and published by John Fairburn, Jun. Fountain Court, Minories
Descrittione de'fuochi artificiali fatti in Mantoua nell'allegrezze delle felicissime nozze del serenissimo duca Carlo II, con la serenissima archiduchessa Isabella Clara d'Austria and Descrittione de' fvochi artificiali fatti in Mantova nell'allegrezze delle felicissime nozze del serenissimo dvca Carlo II, con la serenissima archidvchessa Isabella Clara d'Avstria
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Signatures: A-C⁴D⁶ (A1v, D6v blank).
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Appresso gli Osanna, stampatori ducali, con licenza de' superiori
Subject (Geographic):
Italy and Mantua
Subject (Name):
Carlo II, Duke of Mantua, 1629-1665 and Isabella Clara, of Austria, Archduchess, consort of Carlo II, Duke of Mantua, 1629-1685
Subject (Topic):
Marriage, Fireworks, and Marriages of royalty and nobility
A trade card for a deal in naval equipment and fireworks decorated wtih various kinds of fireworks including Catherine wheels, flares or firecrackers, signal lights, quadrants, and other tools for sailors
