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fireworks/illuminations

Also known as: fireworks/illuminations; illuminations; fireworks
Scope note: For temporary architecture erected for firework displays, see 'temporary architecture'.
Broader terms: x13310; leisure/entertainment

323 related objects

album

Museum number: 1920,0917,0.292 |
Cultures/periods: x14001 Islamic |
Production date: 18thC(early) |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:India

album

Museum number: 1920,0917,0.285 |
Cultures/periods: x14001 Islamic |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:India

album

Museum number: 1920,0917,0.284 |
Cultures/periods: x14001 Islamic |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:India

album; painting

Title: Persian Drawings and Penmanship |
Museum number: 1974,0617,0.9.3 |
Cultures/periods: x14001 Islamic |
Production date: 18thC |
Production place: Made in:Awadh |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Awadh

album; painting

Title: Hindu and Persian Miniatures and Penmanship |
Museum number: 1974,0617,0.10.59 |
Cultures/periods: x14001 Islamic |
Production date: 18thC

album; painting

Title: Hindu and Persian Miniatures and Penmanship |
Museum number: 1974,0617,0.10.62 |
Cultures/periods: x14001 Islamic |
Production date: 18thC

book of prints; illustrated book; print

Museum number: 1973,U.1180.1-18 |
Producer name: Print made by:Ottomar II ElligerPrint made by:Christian Albert Wortmann

drain-cover; stand

Museum number: 2017,3002.1 |
Producer name: BIOG251943 Made by:Matsuo Giken Co, Ltd 株式会社マツオ技研 |
Cultures/periods: x13943 Heisei Era |
Production date: 22 April 2013 |
Production place: Made in:Nagaoka-shi

drawing

Museum number: 2004,0723,0.1 |
Producer name: BIOG166811 Attributed to a Follower of:Nainsukh |
Production date: 1760

drawing; print study

Museum number: 1891,1117.525 |
Producer name: BIOG63250 Drawn by:George Cruikshank |
Production date: 1835

drawing

Museum number: 1900,0411.37 |
Producer name: BIOG46315 Drawn by:William Simpson |
Production date: 1876

drawing

Museum number: 1975,0118.14 |
Producer name: BIOG38225 Drawn by:Paul Ayshford Methuen, 4th Baron Methuen |
Production date: 1937

drawing

Museum number: 1964,1212.6 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Drawn by:Anonymous |
Production date: 18thC(late)

drawing

Museum number: 1900,0411.38 |
Producer name: BIOG46315 Drawn by:William Simpson |
Production date: 1876

drawing; print study

Museum number: 1891,1117.567 |
Producer name: BIOG63250 Drawn by:George Cruikshank |
Production date: 1844

drawing

Museum number: G,5.139 |
Producer name: BIOG44906 Drawn by:Thomas Sandby |
Production date: 1749

fan-print

Title: Ryogoku hyosen hanabi Toto Meisho |
Museum number: 1931,0513,0.27 |
Producer name: BIOG1708 Print artist:Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川広重) |
Production date: 1840 |
Production place: Made in:Japan

hanging scroll; painting

Museum number: 1913,0501,0.32 |
Producer name: BIOG16130 Made by:Zhang Zhong |
Cultures/periods: x14440 Qing dynasty |
Production date: 1801-1850 |
Production place: Made in:China

medal

Museum number: M.8299 |
Producer name: BIOG109681 Designed by:Martin Holtzhey |
Production date: 1734 |
Production place: Made in:Leeuwarden

painting; album

Museum number: 1920,0917,0.66 |
Production date: 1750

painting

Museum number: 1880,0.2239 |
Production date: 1790-1810 |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:India

painting; hanging scroll

Title: Applauding February |
Museum number: 2002,1001,0.3 |
Producer name: BIOG56864 Made by:Song Shi-yop 송시엽 |
Production date: 2001 |
Production place: Made in:Pyongyang

painting

Museum number: 1940,0713,0.63 |
Production date: 1800 |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:India

painting

Museum number: 1920,0917,0.237 |
Cultures/periods: x14001 Islamic |
Production date: 1730 |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:India

painting

Museum number: 1940,0713,0.97 |
Production date: 1800 |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:India

painting

Museum number: 1913,0617,0.4 |
Production date: 1800 |
Production place: Painted in:Punjab Hills |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:India

painting

Museum number: 1948,1009,0.99 |
Producer name: BIOG166811 Attributed to:Nainsukh |
Production date: 1760-1763 |
Production place: Painted in:Guler |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:India

photographic print; trade-card; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: Heal,62.1 |
Producer name: After:John DroeshoutPrint made by:William Marshall |
Production date: 1635

print

Title: Capricci di varie figure di Iacopo Callot - The Nancy set |
Museum number: 1861,0713.1159 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Print made by:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1621

print

Title: Capricci di varie figure di Iacopo Callot - The Florence set |
Museum number: X,4.383 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Print made by:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1617

print

Title: Hollands vreede vuur werken |
Museum number: Y,8.58 |
Producer name: Print made by:Bernard PicartAfter:Pieter Jacobsz. Roman |
Production date: 1713

print; book-illustration

Title: Vuurwerk inde vyver Feu d'artifice au vyver |
Museum number: 1868,0612.1169 |
Producer name: BIOG31987 Print made by:Romeyn de Hooghe |
Production date: 1691

print; book-illustration

Title: Vuurwerk inde Vyver Feu d'artifice au Vyver |
Museum number: 1880,1113.1355 |
Producer name: Print made by:Romeyn de HooghePublished by:Arnout Leers I |
Production date: 1691 |
Production place: Published in:Hague, The

print; book-illustration

Title: Vuurwerk in de Vyver Feu d'artifice au Vyver |
Museum number: 1849,0210.476 |
Producer name: Print made by:Romeyn de HooghePublished by:Arnout Leers I |
Production date: 1691 |
Production place: Published in:Hague, The

print

Title: Representation du feu d'artifice et de l'illumination |
Museum number: 1861,1109.439 |
Producer name: After:Pierre Louis Dumesnil le jeuneAfter:Louis Claude Dumesnil |
Production date: 1744

print; satirical print

Title: The Firework Macaroni Caricatures, Macaronies & Characters, published by |
Museum number: 1915,0313.198 |
Producer name: BIOG24516 Published by:Matthew Darly |
Production date: 1772

print

Museum number: 1870,1008.2999 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1650

print

Title: Afbeeldinge van de vuur wercken door ... Staten General ... geordonneert ter occasie der heerlicke s |
Museum number: Mm,3.71 |
Producer name: BIOG37322 Print made by:Daniel Marot I |
Production date: 1702

print

Title: Dessein de l'illumination et du feu d'artifice donné à Moseigneur le Dauphin à Meudon le 3e Septembr |
Museum number: 1861,1109.457 |
Producer name: BIOG23126 Print made by:Charles Nicolas Cochin fils |
Production date: 1736-1737

print

Title: Troisieme journée Rupture du palais ... par un f Les plaisirs de l'Isle enchantée |
Museum number: 1900,1231.1571 |
Producer name: After:Israel SilvestrePrint made by:Jean Lepautre |
Production date: 1664

print

Title: Representation du feu d'artifice |
Museum number: 1861,1012.2733 |
Producer name: After:Jean TremblinAfter:Pierre Beausire |
Production date: 1745

print

Title: Konsten Vreugde vuuren, angestoken na d'Inhaling v Le Feux d'Artifice, representé devant sa Mayesté a |
Museum number: 1934,0217.56 |
Producer name: Print made by:C SchurmAfter:Romeyn de Hooghe |
Production date: 1691

print

Title: Vrede handel tusschen Engelandt en ons |
Museum number: 1870,1008.2901 |
Producer name: BIOG31987 Print made by:Romeyn de Hooghe |
Production date: 1674 |
Production place: Published in:Amsterdam (Netherlands)

print

Title: Capricci di varie figure di Iacopo Callot - The Nancy set |
Museum number: X,4.399 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Print made by:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1621

print

Title: Le temple de l'Himen ... à l'occasion du mariage de Monsieur le Dauphin avec l'infante Marie-Therese |
Museum number: 1861,1012.2723 |
Producer name: Print made by:Pierre Jacques GaultierAfter:Francesco Saraceni |
Production date: 1745

print

Title: Fireworks |
Museum number: 1840,0314.212.c |
Producer name: BIOG22979 Print made by:Claude Lorrain |
Production date: 1637

print; broadside; almanac

Title: Almanach pour l'an de grace MDCCV Heureuse Naissance de Monseigneur le Duc de Bretag |
Museum number: 1927,1008.450 |
Producer name: BIOG197832 Published by:Nicolas II Langlois |
Production date: 1704 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print

Title: Dessein du feu d'artifice ... faisant allusion au mariage de Monseigneur le Dauphin avec l'infante d |
Museum number: 1897,0113.211 |
Producer name: Print made by:Louis Joseph Le LorrainAfter:Giovanni Paolo Pannini |
Production date: 1745

print

Title: Facciata del Castello Nuovo illuminato di trasparenti |
Museum number: 1871,1209.2702 |
Producer name: Print made by:Nicolas JardinAfter:Vincenzo Re |
Production date: 1747 |
Production place: Published in:Rome (city)

print

Title: Festi e fuochi fatti in Roma |
Museum number: 1870,1008.2975 |
Producer name: BIOG44264 Published by:Giovanni Giacomo de' Rossi |
Production date: 1658 |
Production place: Published in:Rome (city)

print

Title: Afbeelding van het Vuurwerk theater ... in de Vijver binnen S'Gravenhage ... den 13. december 1702 |
Museum number: 1882,0812.412 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan van VianenAfter:Jacob Roman |
Production date: 1702

print

Title: La clemenza coronata dalla giustizia e dalla pace nel tempio dell' eternita |
Museum number: 1870,1008.2979 |
Producer name: BIOG46885 Print made by:Alessandro Specchi |
Production date: 1700

print; trade-card

Museum number: D,2.3854 |
Producer name: BIOG222923 Print made by:G Hayden |
Production date: 1810

print; trade-card

Museum number: D,2.2275 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1780

print; trade-card

Museum number: Heal,62.4 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1750

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Manner of Making & Representing Flowers, &c. in the Chinese Fireworks. |
Museum number: Y,4.502 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous

print; map

Title: D' 'XVII provincien, met de aengrensende landen en steden, etc. |
Museum number: 1870,1008.2900 |
Producer name: Print made by:J SoreauPublished by:Marcus Willemsz. Doornik |
Production date: 1674 |
Production place: Published in:Amsterdam (Netherlands)

print

Title: Eereport en vuurwerk op de markt te Vere |
Museum number: 1870,1008.3001 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1734

print

Title: Vue perspective de l'illumination |
Museum number: 1861,1012.135 |
Producer name: Print made by:François Antoine AvelineAfter:Charles Nicolas Cochin fils |
Production date: 1745

print

Title: Afbeeldinge van de vuur wercken door ... Staten General ... geordonneert ter occasie der heerlicke s |
Museum number: Y,8.73 |
Producer name: BIOG37322 Print made by:Daniel Marot I |
Production date: 1702

print

Title: Reoresentationdu feu d'artifice |
Museum number: 1861,1012.2731 |
Producer name: After:Pierre Louis Dumesnil le jeuneAfter:Louis Claude Dumesnil |
Production date: 1744

print; satirical print

Title: The Firework Macaroni Caricatures, Macaronies & Characters, published by |
Museum number: 1878,0112.16 |
Producer name: BIOG24516 Published by:Matthew Darly |
Production date: 1772

print

Title: Afbeelding van het vuurwerk opgeregt ... over de vreede geslooten tot Utrecht |
Museum number: 1870,1008.2981 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1713

print

Title: Abriss der Illumination und des Feuewerkes ... in dem Anhalt-Zerbstischen neuen Lustgarten Annon 174 |
Museum number: 2002,0728.16 |
Producer name: BIOG19386 Print made by:Johann Martin Bernigeroth |
Production date: 1746

print; album; book-illustration

Museum number: 1868,0822.8495 |
Producer name: BIOG28989 Print made by:Claude Gillot |
Production date: 1719

print

Museum number: 1870,1008.3000 |
Producer name: BIOG21426 Print made by:Giovanni Burnacini |
Production date: 1625-1655

print; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 1871,1209.6010 |
Producer name: BIOG51200 Print made by:Thomas Williams |
Production date: 1843-1862

print; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 1871,1209.6015 |
Producer name: BIOG51200 Print made by:Thomas Williams |
Production date: 1843-1862

print; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 1871,1209.6011 |
Producer name: BIOG51200 Print made by:Thomas Williams |
Production date: 1843-1862

print; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 1871,1209.6013 |
Producer name: BIOG51200 Print made by:Thomas Williams |
Production date: 1843-1862

print; satirical print

Title: Un soir de fête nationale Les beaux jours de la vie |
Museum number: 1886,1012.136 |
Producer name: Print made by:Honoré DaumierPrinted by:Aubert & Cie |
Production date: 1844 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print; satirical print

Title: Un soir de fête nationale Les beaux jours de la vie |
Museum number: 1918,0511.132 |
Producer name: Print made by:Honoré DaumierPrinted by:Aubert & Cie |
Production date: 1844 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print

Title: L'illumination executée le XXIX Aoust M.D.CCXXXIX |
Museum number: Mm,2.121 |
Producer name: BIOG144940 Print made by:Slodtz family |
Production date: 1740

print

Title: Fête du sacre et couronnement de leurs Majestés Impériales |
Museum number: 1868,0612.1176 |
Producer name: Print made by:Louis LecoeurPublished by:Jacques Louis Bance (Bance aîné) |
Production date: 1804 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print

Title: Verderera representacion de los festivos juegos del fuego |
Museum number: 1861,1012.2726 |
Producer name: Print made by:Antoine HérissetAfter:Jean François Guillieaumon |
Production date: 1739

print; broadside; almanac

Title: [Almanach pour l'an MDCCVIII] L'Heureuse Naissance du Prince des Asturies, fils |
Museum number: Mm,2.116 |
Producer name: Published by:Nicolas II LangloisPublished by:Jean Mariette |
Production date: 1707 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print

Title: Tivoli Tableaux de Paris |
Museum number: 1866,0407.993 |
Producer name: Print made by:Félix DelaruePrinted by:Charles Motte |
Production date: 1827

print

Title: Afbeelding van't vuurwerk ... ter occasie van den Aakensche vreede |
Museum number: Y,8.70 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan Caspar PhilipsAfter:Leonhard Stephan Creuznach |
Production date: 1749

print; book-illustration

Title: Surgere quæ rutilo spectas incendia coelo Ferdinan Sereniss. Fernandi Cardinalis Infantis triumphalis |
Museum number: 1875,0710.5894 |
Producer name: BIOG144645 Published by:Jan van Meurs |
Production date: 1636 |
Production place: Published in:Antwerp (city)

print

Title: Representation du feu d'artifice |
Museum number: 1861,1109.452 |
Producer name: After:Pierre Louis Dumesnil le jeuneAfter:Louis Claude Dumesnil |
Production date: 1745

print

Title: Capricci di varie figure di Iacopo Callot |
Museum number: X,4.398 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 After:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1617-1699

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1855,0811.202 |
Producer name: BIOG31869 Print made by:Wenceslaus Hollar |
Production date: 1669

print; book-illustration

Title: Verbeeldingen der twee naalden van het konstvuurwe Representations des deux Pyramides du Feu de Joye |
Museum number: 1849,0210.476.+ |
Producer name: Print made by:Romeyn de HooghePublished by:Arnout Leers I |
Production date: 1691 |
Production place: Published in:Hague, The

print

Museum number: 1861,1109.444 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1580-1620

print

Museum number: 1861,1012.2732 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1686

print; book-illustration

Title: Indian Fire Works |
Museum number: 2010,7081.7299 |
Producer name: Print made by:Frederick James HavellAfter:Capt Felix Jones |
Production date: 1831

print

Title: Representation du feu d'artifce |
Museum number: 1861,1012.2729 |
Producer name: BIOG18610 Published by:François Basan |
Production date: 1750 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print

Title: Le Feu d'Artifice... |
Museum number: 1917,1208.2284 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jean Michel Moreau le jeuneAfter:Pierre Louis Moreau-Desproux |
Production date: 1782-1788

print

Title: Troisième journée - rupture du palais et des encha Les plaisirs de l'ile enchantée |
Museum number: 1889,1218.139 |
Producer name: Print made by:Israel SilvestrePublished by:Israel Silvestre |
Production date: 1664

print

Title: Décoration de la grande illumination faite à Versailles, le 9 février 1747. |
Museum number: 1937,0508.7 |
Producer name: After:Charles Nicolas Cochin filsPrint made by:John Ingram |
Production date: 1747-1750

print

Title: Le Feu d'Artifice... |
Museum number: 1870,1008.2991 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jean Michel Moreau le jeuneAfter:Pierre Louis Moreau-Desproux |
Production date: 1782-1788

print

Title: Prospetto del castello e ponte Sant'Angelo |
Museum number: Y,8.64 |
Producer name: Print made by:Matteo Gregorio de' RossiAfter:Giovanni Battista Falda |
Production date: 1692 |
Production place: Published in:Rome (city)

print; broadside

Title: Castello S Angelo Con La Girandola |
Museum number: Y,8.65 |
Producer name: Print made by:Ambrogio BrambillaPublished by:Claudio Duchetti |
Production date: 1579 |
Production place: Published in:Rome (city)

print

Title: Fochetti Un an à Rome |
Museum number: 1870,1008.2994 |
Producer name: Print made by:Antoine Jean Baptiste ThomasPrinted by:Villain |
Production date: 1823

print

Title: Sixième journée - illuminations autour du Grand Ca Dies extus - nocturna illuminationes circa majorem |
Museum number: 1889,1218.150 |
Producer name: BIOG35559 Print made by:Jean Lepautre |
Production date: 1676

print

Title: Illuminations du Palais et des Jardins de Versaill Nocturnae illuminationes, vasis stauisque incluso |
Museum number: 1889,1218.144 |
Producer name: BIOG35559 Print made by:Jean Lepautre |
Production date: 1679

print

Title: Cinquième journée - feu d'artifice sur le canal de Dies quintus - incendium ludicrum e pyrio pulvere |
Museum number: 1889,1218.149 |
Producer name: BIOG35559 Print made by:Jean Lepautre |
Production date: 1676

print

Title: An horizontal view of the public fireworks |
Museum number: Y,4.31 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1749

print; broadside

Title: Castello S Angelo Con La Girandola |
Museum number: 1862,1011.588 |
Producer name: Print made by:Ambrogio BrambillaPublished by:Claudio Duchetti |
Production date: 1579 |
Production place: Published in:Rome (city)

print

Title: Prospetto del castello e ponte Sant'Angelo |
Museum number: 1862,1011.581 |
Producer name: Published by:Carlo LosiAfter:Matteo Gregorio de' Rossi |
Production date: 1773 |
Production place: Published in:Rome (city)