Pictures of fireworks from before they blow up from a little while back. Plates from “Beschrijving van kunst vuurwerken: zoo als dezelven zich in hunne uitwerkingen vertoonen : met CXIV uitvoerige teekeningen.” From around 1780. If only we could smell the gunpowder and watch them blow up. But this will have to do.

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Figure 30. Page 252.
Figure 30. Page 252. Collection of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain. via https://archive.org/details/beschrijvingvank00hall/page/n252
Figure 32. Page 255.
Figure 32. Page 255. Collection of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain. via https://archive.org/details/beschrijvingvank00hall/page/n254
Figure 33. Page 257.
Figure 33. Page 257. Collection of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain. via https://archive.org/details/beschrijvingvank00hall/page/n256
Figure 41. Page 269.
Figure 41. Page 269. Collection of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain. via https://archive.org/details/beschrijvingvank00hall/page/n268
Figures 48 and 49. Page 285.
Figures 48 and 49. Page 285. Collection of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain. via https://archive.org/details/beschrijvingvank00hall/page/n283
Figure 59. Page 303.
Figure 59. Page 303. Collection of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain. via https://archive.org/details/beschrijvingvank00hall/page/n301
Figure 79. Page 331.
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