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A Perspective View of the Revolving Temple of Concord Invented by Sir William Congreve Bar.t. And erected in the Green Park for the display of A Grand Firework, in Celebration of the Glorious Peace of 1814. The Design & Decorations made by Mess.rs Greenwood & Latilla of the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. The Allegorical Transparencies Designed by M.r Howard R.A, and painted by him; Mes.rs Smirke, Stothard , Woodforde, Dawe, Hilton and Genta _Sculptor M.r Chenu_ The Machinery by Mess.s Maudslay & C.o and Mr Drory.
J. Pain delin. R.W. Smart sculp. Aquatinted by I.Jeakes.
[n.d., c.1814]
Aquatint, watermark Ruse & Turney; sheet 330 x 415mm (13 x 16½"). Trimmed within plate and glued to backing sheet. Top corner torn. Tear through publication line repaired with tape. Creases.
A view of the Temple of Concord, The print depicts an architectural structure erected for the fireworks display held 1 August 1814 in Green Park, London, to celebrate the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the Jubilee of George III. The mastermind behind the Temple was Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Congreve (1772–1828), a rocket designer and Comptroller of the Royal Laboratory at Woolwich. Congreve designed the Temple with assistance from stage designers from the Theatre Royal and master engineers. It was an elaborate structure illuminated with colored lamps and decorated with gilding, festoons, and painted transparencies. Congreve had commissioned some of the nation’s best artists such as Thomas Stothard (1755 – 1834) to design and paint allegorical scenes on these ‘transparencies’, each tableau praising ‘the Triumph of England under the Regency’. When illuminated from inside it was made to revolve, so that spectators might view each side in turn.
[Ref: 57435] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)
J. Pain delin. R.W. Smart sculp. Aquatinted by I.Jeakes.
[n.d., c.1814]
Aquatint, watermark Ruse & Turney; sheet 330 x 415mm (13 x 16½"). Trimmed within plate and glued to backing sheet. Top corner torn. Tear through publication line repaired with tape. Creases.
A view of the Temple of Concord, The print depicts an architectural structure erected for the fireworks display held 1 August 1814 in Green Park, London, to celebrate the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the Jubilee of George III. The mastermind behind the Temple was Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Congreve (1772–1828), a rocket designer and Comptroller of the Royal Laboratory at Woolwich. Congreve designed the Temple with assistance from stage designers from the Theatre Royal and master engineers. It was an elaborate structure illuminated with colored lamps and decorated with gilding, festoons, and painted transparencies. Congreve had commissioned some of the nation’s best artists such as Thomas Stothard (1755 – 1834) to design and paint allegorical scenes on these ‘transparencies’, each tableau praising ‘the Triumph of England under the Regency’. When illuminated from inside it was made to revolve, so that spectators might view each side in turn.
[Ref: 57435] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)