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Engraved night scene of fireworks and a bonfire with a crowd celebrating before classical columns and buildings.

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A Perfect Description of the Firework in Convent Garden that was performed at the Charge of the Gentry and other inhabitants of that Parish for ye joy fall return of His Matie from his Conquest in Ire, John Thomas Smith (1809), Wikimedia Commons. Via artnap.com

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An engraved print shows a night celebration with rockets and fireworks streaming across the sky above a crowd gathered around a burning bonfire and a tall column. Classical columns and a building with a royal cipher frame the right side, and the caption and parish extracts appear below the image. The print is attributed to John Thomas Smith and dated 1809.

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