1-624-565 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

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).