Plate 41: Fireworks display in city square with Ferdinand watching from a balcony at right; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...'

Fireworks at Hemissem

Wenceslaus Hollar

Fireworks display by Lorenz Müller as proof of mastership, Nuremberg 1635

Anonymous

Fireworks display by Lorenz Müller as proof of his mastership, Nuremberg 1635

Anonymous

Firework around the Antwerp Cathedral, plate 41 from Casperius Gevartius, Pompa Introitus Honori Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi

Theodoor van Thulden

Plate K: Election and Coronation of Emperor Maximilian II

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

Gezicht op de brand van de Ronde Lutherse Kerk op 18 september 1822

Gerrit Lamberts

Vreugdevuren op de Dam ter gelegenheid van de verheffing van prins Willem IV in 1747

Unknown Artist

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

Anonymous, After Jacques Callot

Fireworks given by the Swedish ambassadors to honor Karl Gustav, Count Palatine, executed by Johann Carl, Nuremberg 1650

Anonymous

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

Jacques Callot, Lorenzo de' Medici

Departure of Charles II from Scheveningen

Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne

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