The Fireworks

Birth of the Dauphin: The Crowd Watching the Fireworks on the Place de la Grève, Paris, January 21, 1782

Jean Michel Moreau le Jeune

Fireworks at Hemissem

Wenceslaus Hollar

Marriage of Louise-Élisabeth of France and Don Philip of Spain, Paris, August 29, 1739

Jacques François Blondel, Pierre Soubeyran, Jacques Rigaud, P. G. Le Mercier

Le Feu d'Artifice sur l'Arno (Fireworks on the Arno), from Les Caprices Series A, The Florence Set

Jacques Callot, Lorenzo de' Medici

Feu d'Artifice donné à Paris au Mariage de Napoléon

Anonymous, French, 19th century

Reverse Copy of Le Feu d'Artifice sur l'Arno (Fireworks on the Arno), from "Les Caprices"

Anonymous, After Jacques Callot

Le Feu d'Artifice sur l'Arno (Fireworks on the Arno), from "Les Caprices" Series B, The Nancy Set

Jacques Callot, Lorenzo de' Medici

A Perfect Description of the Firework in Covent Garden that was perform'd at the Charge of the Gentry and other inhabitants of that Parish for ye joyfull returan [sic] of His Ma-tiw from His Conquest in Ireland, Sept. 10, 1690

Bernard Lens II, John Thomas 'Antiquity' Smith, Bernard Lens II

Fireworks on the Arno

Jacques Callot

Fire in the Guard House on the Pont Neuf, from the series Tableaux historiques de la Révolution française

Claude Niquet

A Festival on the Arno, from The Caprices

Jacques Callot

Plate K: Election and Coronation of Emperor Maximilian II

Anonymous, German, 17th century, Johann Bringern, Willhelm Hoffmans