Festival for the Family of the Elector of Saxony, Dresden, February 28, 1678: Hercules Fireworks

Celebration for the Elector Johann Georg II, Leipzig, July 8, 1667: Fireworks Display by Night

Unknown Artist

The Dutch Victory over the French and Spanish at Vigo Bay: Fireworks in the Hague, December 13, 1702

Jan van Vianen

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

Jacques Callot, Lorenzo de' Medici

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

Anonymous, After Peter Troschel, after Michael Herr

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

Anonymous, After Peter Troschel, After Michael Herr

Fireworks display by Engelhart Holtzschuer, Jobst Wilhelm Ebner and Johann Tobias Ebner as proof of mastership, Nuremberg, 1661

Lukas Schnitzer

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

Jacques Callot, Lorenzo de' Medici

Plate K: Election and Coronation of Emperor Maximilian II

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

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

Coronation of Czarina Elizabeth, Moscow, April 25, 1742

Unknown Artist

Coronation of Alexander II, Moscow, September 17, 1856: Fireworks Display before the Cadets' Building

Achille-Isidore Gilbert, Designed by Henri-Pierre-Léon-Pharamond Blanchard, Designed by Bagantz, Portrait of Alexander II, Portrait of Empress Marie Alexandowna

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

Anonymous, After Jacques Callot