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

The Fireworks

Jean Michel Moreau

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 A, The Florence Set

Jacques Callot, Lorenzo de' Medici

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

Jacques Callot, Lorenzo de' Medici

Fireworks at Hemissem

Wenceslaus Hollar

Fireworks on the Arno

Jacques Callot

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

A Celebration

Johann Ulrich Kraus

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

Fireworks display celebrating the end of the Thirty Years War, Nuremberg, 1650

Anonymous, After Peter Troschel, after Michael Herr

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