Feu d'Artifice donné à Paris au Mariage de Napoléon

The Fireworks

Jean Michel Moreau

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

The Girandola at the Castel Sant'Angelo

Designed and hand colored by Louis Jean Desprez, Etched by Francesco Piranesi

A View of ye Grand Theatre & Fireworks erected on ye Water near ye Court at ye Hague (on Occasion of ye General Peace concluded at Aix la Chapelle. Oct. 18. 1748) & Exhibited June 13, 1749

Robert Laurie, James Whittle

Coronation of Napoleon, Paris, December 16, 1804

Louis Le Coeur

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

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

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

Unknown Artist

Fireworks at Hemissem

Wenceslaus Hollar

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

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

Jean Michel Moreau le Jeune