Sujet

Fireworks at Green Park, St James's, April 27th, 1749. Artist: Unknown

Légende

Fireworks at Green Park, St James's, April 27th, 1749. 'The Grand Whim for Prosperity to Laugh at: Being the night view of the royal fireworks as exhibited in the Green Park, St James's with the right wing on fire and the cutting away the two middle arches to prevent the whole fabric from being destroyed.' A fireworks display, with music specially composed by Handel, was held to celebrate the end of the War of the Austrian Succession and the signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century ... With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston [pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds], (London, 1905).
The Print Collector collection

Date

30 nov. 1999

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM19C24_402

Model release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

50,1Mo (5,8Mo) / 41,5cm x 30,3cm / 4898 x 3576 (300dpi)

Mots clés

parc Londres événement musique arts nuit le feu Britannique célébrations accident célébration explosion pompe tuyau endroit siècle La Grande-Bretagne fusée services de secours les sapeurs-pompiers pompe à incendie concept incident pompage heure B&W MONOCHROME Traité noir et blanc noir et blanc B W 18e siècle Dix-huitie siècle The Print Collector George Fireworks Music Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle landscape Unknown George Frideric King George II George II King of Britain and Ireland Duke of George Frideric Handel Handel George Frederick Handel Georg Friedrich Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg George Paston Paston Symonds Emily Morse Emily Morse Symonds landscape