In the Library: Pageantry and Pyrotechnics in the European Fete Book

Pierre Faber, plate from Reception de tres-chrestien, tres-iuste, et tres-victorieux monarque Louys XIII. roy de France & de Navarre ..., Lyon: Jaques Roussin, 1623, National Gallery of Art Library, David K. E. Bruce Fund, DC123.3 .S65 1623

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A. Mathieu after Jean Godran, plate from Les armes triomphantes de Son Altesse, monseignevr, le dvc d'Espernon, Dijon: Philibert Chanvance, 1656, National Gallery of Art Library, David K. E. Bruce Fund, DC801.D61 B47 1656

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Artist unknown, plate from Description des feux d'artifices faits a l'honnevr du Roy a Lille, Lille: Jean Chrisostome Malte, 1680, National Gallery of Art Library, David K. E. Bruce Fund, DC801.L688 D47 1680

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Vincenzo Coronelli, plate from César d’Estrée, Roma festeggiante nel Monte Pincio / Roma triomphante sur le Mont Pincius, Venice: Vincenzo Coronelli, c. 1687, National Gallery of Art Library, Gift of the Circle of the National Gallery of Art, DC126 .R66 1687

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Romeyn de Hooghe, plate from Govard Bidloo, Komste van Zyne Majesteit Willem III. Koning van Groot Britanje, enz. in Holland, The Hague: A. Leers, 1691, National Gallery of Art Library, David K. E. Bruce Fund, DJ186 .B53

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Romeyn de Hooghe, plate 6 from Divo et invictissimo Leopoldo I. P.F.A. fidei in Hungaria…, c. 1686, engraving, National Gallery of Art Library, Nell and Robert Weidenhammer Fund, N44.H779 A3 1686

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Melchior Küsel, plate from Von Himmeln entzindete vnd durch allgemainen Zuruff der Erde sich himmelwerts erschwingende Frolokhungs Flammen …, Vienna: publisher unknown, 1666, National Gallery of Art Library, David K. E. Bruce Fund, DB67.3 .V66 1666

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Jacobus Harrewijn, plate from Relation de l'inauguration solemnelle de Sa Sacrée Majesté imperiale et catholique, Charles VI., Empereur des Romains, toujours auguste, Ghent: Augustin Graet, 1719, National Gallery of Art Library, David K. E. Bruce Fund, DB69.3 .R4 1719

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Artist unknown, plate from Giuseppe Antonio Alberti, La pirotechnia, o sia, Trattato dei fuochi d'artificio, Venice: Gio. Battista Recurti, 1749, National Gallery of Art Library, Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection, TP300 .A42

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Giuseppe Scolari, plate from Germano Benoni, La maestà coronata, Padua: Giovanni Manfrè, 1714, National Gallery of Art Library, David K. E. Bruce Fund, DG975.V52 B47 1714

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Andreas Nunzer after Balthasar Neumann, plate from Beschreibung der brennenden Feuer-Bühn, welche zu höchten Ehren der durchlauchtigsten Fürstin und Frau, Frau Elisabeth, Gebohrnen Erb-Printzessin zu Hungarn und Böheimb …, Würzburg: Heinrich Engmann, 1725, National Gallery of Art Library, David K. E. Bruce Fund, DD901.W93 E28 1725

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