Grosvenor Prints

Le Bouquet. Choui-------- ! ...........Put! put! put! ...Pan!!....pan pan, pan! brrrr..pan, papapapaw pan! pan!!...pan! pouf! pouf! Patapatapouf !!!!!
Lith. de Delaporte, Seur de Langlumé. Lith par Vatier d'après Grandville.
On s'abonne chez Aubert, galerie Vero dodat.
Lithograph, 340 x 265mm. 13½ x 10½". Foxing around image; stain in top right. Crease to lower right corner.
Atmospheric print of a firework display and large crowd, complete with onomatopoeic text below.
[Ref: 8792] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Boyer, Artist in Fire Works, and Manufacturer of Shipping Combustibles, Signal Rockets, Percussion Powder for Gentlemens' Guns, detonating Silver,, and every Combustible known to the Pyrotechnical Art, No 42, Gibraltar Row, Near the Elephant and Castle, Surrey.
Page & Son, Printers, 62, Black Friars Road.
[n.d., c.1825.]
Scarce letterpress handbill, Huxham Mill watermark 1827. Sheet 320 x 200mm (12½ x 8"). Creases, wear to edges.
An advert for fireworks with a price list, headed with the Royal Warrant. George Boyer was listed in 'Pigot & Co's Directory for Scotland for 1825-6... together with the Most Extensive Directory of London'.
[Ref: 57177] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

1867. Whitsuntide Galas! Peel Park, Bradford. Programme of Performance for Monday, June 10th.
[1867.]
Scarce letterpress handbill. Sheet 250 x 190mm (9¾ x 7½"). Creasing.
Attractions include Mr Liskard's 'Mysterious Musical Teapot', a 'Grand Balloon Ascent by Captain Metcalf', and 'A Grand Display of Fireworks by Professor Dyer, of London'.
[Ref: 57185] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Firework display in Amsterdam on 7 September 1667 to commemorate the peace between England and the Netherlands] Victori en Vreugde-Vuren gehouden op den 7 September Ao 1667, ter gedachtenis van de Engelse en Nederlandtse Vreede
[published by Marcus Willemsz Doornick, Amsterdam, c.1667]
Etching, sheet 155 x 235mm (6 x 9¼"). Possibly trimmed from larger broadside and glued to backing sheet.
Firework display held to commemorate the signing of the Treaty of Breda, signed on 24 August 1667, which ended the second Anglo-Dutch war. This etching first appeared as part of a large broadside, and subsequently in the book 'Kort en Bondigh Verhael Van't geene in den oorlogh ... in't Jaer 1667', both published by Marcus Doornick.
[Ref: 42586] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Splendid Display of Fireworks. For One Night Only. Mr. G. Bywater, Jun. Most respectfully announces to the Ladies of Wakefield and its Vicinity, that he will Diplay a Grand Collection of Fireworks, in the Yard belonging to the Woodman Inn, in Wood Street, near the Sessions House, on the Evening of Friday the 28th Instant [...] Fireworks with the latest Improvements, by G. Bywater, No 6. Long Row, Philadelphia, near Sheffield.
Thomas Waller, Printer, Post Office Yark, Wakefield.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Scarce letterpress handbill. Sheet 285 x 225mm (11¼ x 8¾"). Wear to edges, some staining.
A hand bill for a fireworks display in Wakefield, Yorkshire, with a 32-point 'Order of Firing'. George Frederick Bywater is listed in the 'Sheffield Directory of Trades and Professions for 1834'; this is likely to be his son.
[Ref: 57172] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Viscount Cremorne.] [&] Chelsea Park. (2)
[Anon.] [&] Printed by C. Hullmandel.
[British, c.1800 - 1825.]
Portrait, proof stipple and etching before all letters, with lithograph view, both tipped into a single folio album leaf. Sheet 485 x 330mm, 18¾ x 13". The prints lacking some margin.
Cremorne Gardens, Lots Road SW10 are named for Thomas Dawson, 1st Viscount Cremorne (1725 - 1813); this portrait is by Charles Knight after Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769 - 1830). Lord Cremorne bought Chelsea Farm, the house depicted below his portrait, in 1778. In 1831 it was purchased by Charles Random De Berenger, Baron De Beaufain who turned it first into a sports club and then opened the Cremorne Pleasure Gardens. Entertainment included concerts, fireworks, balloon ascents and galas. After its closure, the gardens were sold for building and soon built over.
NPG D2225. See Longford Images of Chelsea 355, 'Chelsea Farm'.
[Ref: 25686] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Pittville Gardens, Prestbury Road [Cheltenham]. A Grand Race Gala [...] On Tuesday Evening next, July 19th, 1831 [...]After the Concert, there will be a Grand Gala Fete, and Superb Display of Fireworks Ona very extensive Scale; on which Occasion the Gardens will be most brilliantly Illuminted with Variegated Lamps [...]
Cunningham and Co, Chronicle Office, Pittville Street, Cheltenham.
[1831.]
Scarce letterpress handbill, watermark 1818, Sheet 335 x 190mm (13¼ x 7½"). Creasing, staining and wear.
A hand bill for a concert ending with a fireworks display, with a 26-point 'Order of Firing'.
[Ref: 57179] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

J.G. D'Ernst, Artist in Fire Works to His Majesty, and the Royal Gardens, Vauxhall. No 5, Doughty Place, Lambeth Walk.
Barnes, Printer, 44, Bridge House Place, Newington Causeway.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Letterpress on green paper. Sheet 235 x 125mm (9¼ x 5"). Some foxing.
An advertisment for fireworks, with a price list.
[Ref: 57183] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Grand Triumphal Arch displayed opposite to Windsor Castle, by H.W. Darby, In honour of the visit of Louis Napoleon, Emperor of France, to her Majesty, Queen Victoria the First. H.W. Darby, 98, Regent Street, Lambeth, London, Wholesale Firework Manufacturer, and Railway Signal-Light Contractor. Artist to the Nobility and Gentry's Grand Fetes, Theatres, and Public Gardens. For many years the Sole Artiste to the Royal Gardens, Vauxhall.
[c.1863.]
Scarce letterpress advertisment. Sheet 180 x 130mm (7 x 5"). Left edge frayed.
Probably a page from a trade directory.
[Ref: 57180] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Drewell, Artist in Fire-Works, and Engineer to his Majesty's Grand Fetes in the Park, Nos 27 and 33, Westminster Bridge Road, - S. Near the Obelisk. Licensed Pursuant to Act of Parliament.
Passmore, Printer and Stationer, 60, Borough Road.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Scarce letterpress handbill. Sheet 390 x 240mm (15¼ x 9½").
An advert for fireworks with a price list, doubling as an invoice, headed with the Royal Warrant. '25% off' is written in old ink manuscript. "Black & Ball cartridge port fires etc for exportation".
[Ref: 57186] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Guy Fawkes detected & seized under the House of Lords Nov.r 5th 1606. Percy & Catesby slain in attempting their escape from Holbeach.
London Pub by Thomas Kelly, Paternoster row, Oct 16 1813.
Engraving, sheet 330 x 210mm (13 x 8¼").
Two famous scenes from British history.
[Ref: 39218] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

The Fifth of November.
T. Stothard delint. C Knight sculpt.
London Pubd: Jany. 1 1790 by J.F. Tomkins No.18 New Bond Street.
Stipple, 175 x 200mm. 7 x 8". Large margins.
A group of children excitedly burning a guy over a wooden pyre; one child in the foreground fans the flames with his hat. After Thomas Stothard (1755 - 1834).
[Ref: 21780] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Der Feuerwerks Platz im Prater. La Place du feu d'Artifice au Prater.
C. P. S. C. M. [Johann] Ziegler.
Artaria & Comp [n.d. c. 1783, Vienna.]
Etching with original colour. 330 x 435mm (13 x 17¼"). Faint toning and staining that creeps into the image.
A festive scene in Vienna's Prater Park in the 'Fireworks Square'. From Johann Ziegler's 'Views of the Royal City of Vienna' (1749-1802) a German and Austrian landscape artist known for both his paintings and copperplate engravings.
[Ref: 56474] £450.00

Royal Grecian Saloon, Pleasure Grounds and Olympic Temple, Eagle Tavern, City Road [...] Benefit, Tuesday, September 14, 1841. A Grand Ball Gala, Fire-works, and Illuminations [...]
J.W. Peel Printer, 9 New Cut, Lambeth, opposite the Victoria.
[1841.]
Letterpress handbill, 4pp., printed on two sides. Sheet 255 x 370mm, folded once. Tear taped, edges chipped, laid on album sheet.
After an evening of opera, pantomine and singing, the entertainment was 'To Conclude with a Magnificent display of Fireworks by Mr. Fenwick".
[Ref: 57166] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Fireworks for the wedding of Leopold I] Eigentliche Abbild ,, ünd vorstellüng des sehr künftlichen ünd tostbarn Feuerwerds welches auf dem Hochfeyerlichen Kayserl. Beylager zu Wien den 8, Decembris (28) Novemb.) dess 1666. Jahrs, angesündet und branet worden.
[after Melchior Küsel.]
[Frankfurt: Johann Görlin & Johann Bauer, 1703.]
Engraving. 300 x 345mm (11¾ x 13½"), with margins. Binding folds.
A fireworks display celebrating the marriage of Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I to Margaret Theresa, daughter of King Philip IV of Spain. The fireworks are being launched from a baroque building, with centaurs fighting in the foreground. From 'Theatrum Europaeum', published by the heirs of Matthaus Merian.
[Ref: 54927] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Artificier.
[Denis Diderot and Jean d'Alembert, c.1760.]
Set of seven engravings with letterpress contents sheet. Bound together in paper wrapper, some sheets loose. Each sheet: 255 x 390mm (10 x 15½") Staining.
Seven plates detailing the tools and equipment of a pyrotechnician, from Diderot and d'Alembert's 'Encyclopédia ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers' 17vols (1751-1765).
[Ref: 41357] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

Artificier. Contenant Sept Planches.
Baratti s.
[Paris, Neuchâtel & Amsterdam: Briasson, le Breton, Durand & Panckoucke, c.1772.]
Folio, stitched extract; pp. (ii), 7 numbered engraved plates, as called for.
The complete set of seven plates relating to the work of pyrotechnicians or firework-makers. The plates show a workshop, tools and design of various fireworks, and the text contains a 145-point key. Published in the "Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences" edited by Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784), French philosopher, art critic and writer. The 35 volumes took nearly 30 years to produce (1751-1780): the opposition from both the French State Prosecutor and Pope Clement XIII meant that much of the work was published secretly, although Diderot learned after publication that his printer was still censoring his final proofs.
[Ref: 17909] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

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 le Chapelle Oct:18, 1748) and exhibited June 13, 1749. N.S.
Engrav'd for the Universal Magazine according to Act of Parliament 1749, for J. Hinton at ye Kings Arms in St. Pauls Church-Yard London.
Etching and engraving, 180 x 300mm. 7 x 11¾". Vertical folds as normal, tearing at lower paper edge. Some staining.
Preparations for a display of fireworks to celebrate the second Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen) of 1748, which ended the War of the Austrian Succession. Fold-out illustration to the Universal Magazine.
[Ref: 9672] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)

A Representation of the Royal Fire-Work perform'd by the directions of Coll. Hopkey and Coll. Borgard on the River of Thames near Whitehall, y.e 7.th of July 1713. being y.e day appointed for a publick Thanksgiving for the General Peace.
B. Lens fec. et exc.
[n.d. 1713]
Extremely rare & fine mezzotint. 520 x 410mm (20½ x 16"). Trimmed to plate mark. Horizontal centre fold crease with minor creasing and scratches across the image. Small nicks to the edges. Loss to bottom left corner filled in with ink.
An architectural facade of paired columns adorned with statues and the royal crest. Fireworks burst into the sky in the background as well as on the Thames in the foreground. The statues take the allegorical form of Prudence, Temperance, Fortitude, Justice, Courage, Victory, Peace and Conduct. The year of peace, or Anno Pacis, refers to the Peace of Utrecht signed in April 1713 by Queen Anne, Louis XIV and Philip V of Spain.
[Ref: 56467] £950.00

Positively the last Night. Dobree's Theatre [...] he has at a considerable expence, engaged the Celebrated Madam Hengler, who will exhibit A grand Display of Fire Works, As performed by her with such unbpunded Applause at Vauxhall Gardens, London, last Season [...]
Printed by G. Norton, Henley.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Letterpress handbill Sheet 380 x 220mm (15 x 8¾). Folds and creasing, toning to edges, a few chips.
After an evening of comedy, Sarah Hengler would put on a show of fireworks, including 'a grand Metamophose Wheel, displaying in brilliant Fire, ''Prosperity to Marlow!'''. Hengler (c.1765-1845), second wife of the circus performer John Michael Hengler, ran her firework business from 4 Asylum Buildings, off Westminster Bridge Road. In 1818 three people died in explosions there; after retiring from the business she was killed in a fire on the premises.
[Ref: 57167] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)

[The Grand Jubilee Celebrations in London's Parks.] View of the Bridge and Pagoda, from the Canal, St James's Park.[&] The Chinese Pagoda and Bridge in St James's Park (previous to the Fire.) [&] The Fortress (which inclosed the Grand Pavillion.) in the Green Park; with the ascent of the Balloon. [&] The Grand Pavillion in Green Park. [&] The View in Hyde Park, with the Fleet at Anchor, on the Serpentine River. [&] The Jubilee Naval Action on the Serpentine in Commemoration of the Battle of the Nile. [&] The Action between the British & American Frigates on the Serpentine, Hyde Park, 1st August, 1814. [&] Scene on the Serpentine, Hyde Park, on the Night of the Grand Jubilee, Aug.t 1. 1814.
Published Aug.t 12 [& 24th], 1814, by Tho. Palser, Surry Side, West.r Bridge.
Eight etchings with hand colour. Each c. 245 x 345mm (9¾ x 13½"). Each plate trimmed to plate top and bottom.
On 1st August 1814 a series of events celebrating both the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the centenary of Hanoverian rule in England. In St James's Park a Chinese bridge with a pagoda was built over the lake; in Green Park a revolving Temple of Concord was constructed by Sir William Congreve (of rocket fame); and in Hyde Park naval battles with miniature frigates were fought (the 'Nile' and 'Trafalgar' against the French and a third against the Americans, a reminder that Britain was still fighting the War of 1812). The battles were successful events: however the pagoda in St James's Park was set alight by fireworks, killing one and injuring another; and the balloon ascent, by James Sadler (1753-1828, the first English balloonist) did not go as planned and he had to make an emergency landing.
[Ref: 49810] £2,500.00 view all images for this item

The Chinese Bridge on Fire, on the night of the celebration of the glorious Peace of 1814.
Published & Sold Aug.t 12th 1814, by Edw.d Orme, Bond St. London.
Coloured mezzotint, prepared as a transparency. 180 x 125mm (7 x 5"), Narrow margins, some staining.
On 1st August 1814 a series of events celebrating both the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the centenary of Hanoverian rule in England. In St James's Park a Chinese bridge with a pagoda was built over the lake; in Green Park a revolving Temple of Concord was constructed by Sir William Congreve (of rocket fame); and in Hyde Park naval battles with miniature frigates were fought (the 'Nile' and 'Trafalgar' against the French and a third against the Americans, a reminder that Britain was still fighting the War of 1812). The battles were successful events: however the pagoda in St James's Park was set alight by fireworks, killing one and injuring another; and the balloon ascent, by James Sadler (1753-1828, the first English balloonist) did not go as planned and he had to make an emergency landing. This print has been treated with oil and colour on the reverse to create more vivid colours when held up to a light.
[Ref: 53152] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

A Perspective View of the Magnificent Structure, erected in the Green Park for the Royal Fire Works exhibited the 27 of April 1749, on account of the General Peace. Veue Perspective du Batiment Magnifique...
London Printed for Robert Wilkinson No.58 Cornhill, & Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St.Pauls Church Yard.
Beautifully coloured engraving, J. Whatman watermark; plate 255 x 405mm (10 x 16"), with large margins. Some surface dirt mainly focused in the margins but also within the plate mark.
A view in Green Park of the structure made for the firework display celebrating the end of the War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748) and the signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen). The structure was designed by the Franco-Italian architect, decorator and artist Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni (1695–1766). The illuminations were accompanied by music composed for the occasion and conducted by George Frideric Handel (1685–1759). The display was not as successful as the music itself: rainy weather caused many misfires, the right pavilion caught fire in the middle of the show, as well as several injuries.
[Ref: 56090] £360.00

Grand Display of Fire-Works Postponed, Until Thursday the 20th instant. The Inhabitants of Hull and its Vicinity are most respectfully informed, That in consequence of Mr. Nervoni making several Additions to the Plan of the Fire-Works Already Announced, The Exhibition will unavoidably be Postponed until Thursday next, the 20th Inst. When it will positively take place at the Pottery Barrack Yard.
(Robert Peck, Printer, Hull.)
Hull, July, 17th, 1815.]
Scarce letterpress handbill. Sheet 220 x 170mm (8¾ x 6¾").
A firework display, probably celebrating the Battle of Waterloo the previous month. Signor Nervoni was conductor of fire works at Vauxhall Gardens.
[Ref: 57174] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Thomas Lediard Linguarum Ocidentalium Professo [...] Anno 1735
T. Lediard inven.
Rare engraving, sheet 325 x 200mm (12¾ x 8"). Trimmed to image.
Thomas Lediard (1685-1743), writer and surveyor whose varied career included organising firework displays, teaching languages and managing the opera (all in Hamburg), working as justice for the peace in Westminster, and playing a key role in the development of the first bridge across the Thames at Westminster. He also wrote various historical works including the 'Naval History of England' to which this is the frontispiece (the Muse can be seen resting upon a copy of the book while drawing a map of Georgia). Lediard himself designed the ornate border to this portrait, including allegorical representations of various branches of learning.
[Ref: 31327] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The Night of an Illumination.
[After Augustus Pugin.]
Published by Edwd. Orme, Bond Street, 1806.
Etching and aquatint in colour, one sheet of two. 350 x 500mm. Trimmed to plate mark top and bottom. Paper edges tatty, with small tears. Tear into plate at left, just short of image. Light foxing/staining in title area. Pin hole in centre of sky area.
The right plate of two of the 'Illumination For Peace', a view of figures gathered at the residence of the French envoy, L. G. Otto, in Portman Square to watch an illumination celebrating the Peace of Amiens, 1802, between Britain and France. A single-sheet version engraved by Stadler was published by Orme in 1802.
[Ref: 4496] £480.00

Naumachy (or Sham Sea fight) on the Serpentine, and display of Fireworks in Celebration of the Grand Jubilee. A.t 1st 1814.
[n.d., 1814.]
Rare aquatint. Sheet 285 x 305mm (11¼ x 12"), ink mss. ownership inscription on reverse dated 'September 19th 1814'. Trimmed within plate at sides, repaired tears in left and right edge.
A printed souvenir of the event, which saw a mock sea battle between 42 miniature warships, 40 feet long and 12 feet wide, each carrying ten guns and thirty crew, all of which had to be constructed on site.
Provenance: Athelhampton House, Dorset.
[Ref: 52924] £390.00

The Image of Nilus brought by Vespasiam out of Aegypt and now to be Seene at Rome in the Vatican.
[George Sandys. n.d. c.1621.]
Engraving. Plate 139 x 222mm. 5½ x 8¾".
A statue found in the Vatican Garden brought by Titus Flavius Vespasianus from Egypt when in July 69 he was declared emperor by the Roman Senate. Nilus in Greek mythology represented the god of the Nile river itself. This particular engraving was published in Sandys's "Relation of a Journey begun An Dom. 1610". On verso is text and another engraving of night-time festivities with fireworks attending the rise of the Nile.
[Ref: 18129] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

[Panorama al fresco with fireworks] Ranelagh! Gardens, St. Peters. Extraordinary Attraction! Grand Galla and Fete every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. [...] The Splendid Picture Model of the Magnificent Buddha Temple of Honan of the Three Golden Idols. (Lately Exhibited at Vauxhall Gardens, London.) In the course of which will be introduced a magnificent series of Chinese Pyrotechnic Tableaux, being a continuous and superb display of Fireworks!! [...]
Keble, Printer, Margate.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Scarce letterpress handbill on blue paper. Sheet 280 x 115mm (11 x 4½"). A few small tears.
A hand bill for a show at Ranelagh Gardens, Broadstairs, Kent, with a panorama al fresco accompanied by fireworks by Messrs Adams, three brothers who often worked with George Danson.
[Ref: 57170] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Elevation of a Greek Temple Erected at Eton on the Day of Her Majesty's Marriage February 10, 1840. 60 Feet Wide._ 30 Feet High_and illuminated by 5000 Lamps.
Day & Haghe, liths. to the Queen.
[c.1840.]
Lithograph on india laid paper, sheet 235 x 305mm. 9¼ x 12". Margins soiled, with one tear.
A grand illumination to celebrate the marriage of Queen Victoria to her cousin, Prince Albert, on 10 February 1840, in the Chapel Royal of St. James's Palace, London. Very scarce.
[Ref: 11916] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Fire Works. Chevalier Southby, Principal Artist to the Royal Gardens, Vauxhall, London, King's Patent and Minor Theatres respectfully announces to the Public of Sheffield and its Vicinity, that he proposed exhibiting Two Discharges of Fiew Works, upon the Cricket Ground at Hyde Park, on Wednesday, July 25, 1827 [...]
H.A. Bacon, Printer, Sheffield.
[1827].
Scarce letterpress handbill. Sheet 510 x 195mm (20 x 7¾"). Tears, staining, laid on card.
A hand bill for a fireworks display in Sheffield, with an Order of Firing. Pyrotechnist J. Southby (d.1865), a self-created ‘Chevalier’, created the firework display for the coronation of Queen Victoria in Hyde Park in 1838.
[Ref: 57187] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

A Plan and Elevation of the Royal Fire Works to be Perform'd in St James's Park, April the 27th. 1749, on Account of the General Peace signed at Aix la Chapelle Oct.r. 7 1748.
G. Vertue Sculp Londini.
Drawn, Engrav'd and Publish'd 5th of April 1749, according to Act of Parliament.
Engraving, very fine impression. 410 x 555mm (16 x 21¾"). A few tiny holes. Thread margins. Slight tear bottom right.
The erections in St James's Park to stage the a display of fireworks to celebrate the second Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen) of 1748, which ended the War of the Austrian Succession.
Provenance: Sandys Family, Ormersley Court, Worcestershire.
[Ref: 52271] £750.00

[Fireworks at Strasbourg] Représentation des Edifices et Decorations Elevés, et du Feu d'Artifice exécuté le 5 Octobre 1744 sous le bon plaisir et en presence de Sa Majesté Louis XV, par les Ordres du Magestrat de Strasbourg, sur la Riviere d'Ill, et en façe du Palais Episcopal où Sa Majesté.
Inventé dessiné et dirigé par J.M. Weis Graveur de la Ville de Strasbourg. Gravé par J.B. Le Bas Graveur du Cabinet du Roy.
[n.d., c.1745]
Etching. 450 x 770mm (17¾ x 30¼"), with large margins. Crack in platemark and centrefold margin repaired, faint damp stain affecting margin and title area on left.
A massive fireworks display outside the Episcopal Palace, Strasbourg, with spectators lining the river. In 1744 Louis XIV travelled to Germany to join his army fighting the War of the Austrian Succession. He fell ill, so gravely that his chaplain could blackmail Louis into giving up his mistress before receiving absolution. When he recovered a five-day party was held, with the events recorded in 'Représentation des fêtes données par la ville de Strasbourg pour la convalescence du roi, à l'arrivée et pendant le séjour de Sa Majesté en cette ville', with this being plate 5 of 11.
[Ref: 54038] £650.00

A View of ye Grand Theatre & Fireworks erected on ye water near ye Court of ye Hague (on Occasion of ye General Peace concluded at Aix la Chapelle Oct. 18, 1748.) & exhibited June 18, 1749. N.S.
Ridge sculp.
Engraved for S. & I. Exshaw Dub: 1749.
Engraving. 195 x 430mm. Very fine Irish copper engraving.
In essence, the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle and the War of Austrian Succession concluded status quo ante bellum. In the commercial struggle between Britain and France in the West Indies, Africa, and India, nothing was settled; the treaty was thus no basis for a lasting peace.
[Ref: 7192] £450.00

[The Royal Vineyard, Turin, during the fireworks] Veduta della Vigna di S.M. la Regina con l'illuminatione [parallel text in French]
Ignatius Agliaudus Architect ornavit Joan. Ant. Belmondus sculpsit Taurini 1737
Etching, rare, platemark 290 x 410mm (11½ x 16¼").
The villa of the Royal Vineyard in Turin, Italy, which underwent substantial expansion after it passed to Anna d'Orleans in 1692. This locally-published print shows a firework display taking place in the background.
Provenance: Thomas Pitt 1st Baron Camelford
[Ref: 45279] £420.00

[Panorama al fresco with fireworks] Botanic Garden. Mr David Smith the Curator, most respectfully announces [...] A Benefit on Friday Evening, Oct. 7, on which Messrs. Southby & Adams have undertaken to produce one of the most Splendid Exhibitions That have yet taken place of the Grand Historical Spectacle, The Eruption of Vesuvius And the destruction of the Cities of Herculaneum & Pompeii. [...] The Eruption will take place at Eight o'Clock; but should the Weather be unfavourable, it will be postponed till Monday 10th.
M.C. Peck. Printer, Lowgate Hull.
1842 [old ink mss.]
Letterpress handbill. Sheet 340 x 205mm (13½ x 8"). A few small tears.
A hand bill for a show at Hull's Botanic Garden, with an exhibition of George Danson's immense protean view of the Eruption of Vesuvius: under normal light the painting showed a daytime view of the Bay of Naples but, at the appointed time, back-lighting changed the scene to night, with lava spewing into the air, accompanied by fireworks. George Danson (1799-1881) specialised in panoramas exhibited outside in pleasure gardens, usually first shown at Royal Surrey Zoological Gardens, Walworth. This ‘Vast Panorama Al Fresco of Mount Vesuvius’ (first exhibited 1837) was admired by J.M.W. Turner. The 'Southby' mentioned here is J. Southby (d.1865), a self-created ‘Chevalier’, who was the pyrotechnist. Southby created the firework display for the coronation of Queen Victoria in Hyde Park in 1838.
[Ref: 57169] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

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