Fireworks display, Nuremberg, 1659

Anonymous

1659 · Etching · Drawings and Prints

The image is divided into two halves: the upper half of the print depicts a fireworks display ocurring at night, and the lower half shows the same scene of launching devices but at closer range, without the fireworks being set off, and possibly in the day time. The fireworks may be in celebratation of the final peace agreements of the Thirty Years War.

Artist

Anonymous

Date

1659

Medium

Etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953