Fireworks, France, 18th century.
- Date:
- 1766
- Manuscripts
About this work
Description
'Rece?l de l'artiffice contenant celle de guere et de joye, appartenant a Mr La Jieroffl?e, sergent au Corps Royal': collection of watercolour sketches of firework arrangements and other subjects, including ropes, knots and pulleys, apparently drawn by a sergeant in the French royal army, 1766.
Publication/Creation
1766
Physical description
1 volume
1 volume: approximately 195 x 145 mm. 21 folios Late 19th or early 20th-century red buckram binding, with lettering piece on spine labelled 'Artifices 1,766'.
1 volume: approximately 195 x 145 mm. 21 folios Late 19th or early 20th-century red buckram binding, with lettering piece on spine labelled 'Artifices 1,766'.
Biographical note
The circumstances regarding the creation of this work are unknown. It is quite possibly incomplete, having perhaps lost several leaves before it was (re)bound in the late 19th or early 20th centuries. The current sequence of drawings seems eccentric.
Language note
In French.
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Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed storesMS.9282