Title

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

Caption

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

Nov 30, 1999

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C24_402

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,1Mb (5,8Mb) / 16,3in x 11,9in / 4898 x 3576 (300dpi)

Keywords

water park London England event music arts night fire British celebrations accident celebration explosion pump fireworks hose location century Britain rocket emergency services fire brigade fire engine concept incident pumping time of day B&W MONOCHROME Treaty black & white black and white B W 18th century Eighteenth Century The Print Collector Green Park pumping engine royal event TGN 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 George Paston George Frideric Handel King George II landscape