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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Engraving of a crowd watching fireworks over a city square at night, with a town hall, fountains and columns.

Birth of the Dauphin: The Crowd Watching the Fireworks on the Place de la Grève, Paris, January 21, 1782

Jean-Michel Moreau, 1782, reprinted ca. 1860

Engraving of Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome with fireworks bursting from its towers over the Tiber and a crowd below.

The Girandola at the Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla

Watercolor drawing of a formal garden with cypresses, a crowned monogram on a tiered pedestal, and decorative rosettes and gl

Coronation of the Czar Alexander I, Moscow, September 1801

Lieutenant-Captain Cheleyev, 1801

Engraved crowd of people in top hats and bonnets watching fireworks burst over trees on a night sky.

Fire-Works on the Night of the Fourth of July (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XII)

Winslow Homer, July 11, 1868

Colored bird's-eye print of the Brooklyn Bridge with fireworks, balloons, and sailing ships on the East River at night.

Bird's-Eye View of the Great New York and Brooklyn Bridge, and Grand Display of Fireworks on Opening Night...May 24,…

Monochrome print of a woman in a pale gown beside a pillar, with a chandelier and rows of lamps in a dark café interior.

Mademoiselle Bécat at the Café des Ambassadeurs, Paris

Edgar Degas, 1877-78

Portrait of a man

Thomas Frye (, 1760

Engraving of an ornate octagonal obelisk surrounded by fireworks and scrolled flames, with an allegorical relief on its base.

Festival for Saint Placidus, Messina, August 2, 1589: Fireworks Obelisk

Filippo Gotho, 1591

Engraving of an ornate baroque altar structure with a crowned Virgin on clouds, angels, saints, and skulls.

Il Fuoco Trionfante...della Traslatione della Miracolo...La Madona Del Fuoco...li xx di Ottobre MDCXXXVI

Floriano dal Buono, 1637

Red chalk drawing of a muscular nude man seen from behind, arms raised and extended, legs apart in a dynamic pose.

Standing Nude Man (recto); Three Studies of Soldiers (verso)

Taddeo Zuccari, 1550

Brown wash drawing of a mounted rider and procession before a city with towers and a harbor with a sailing ship.

Study for the Armistice between King Francis I of France and Emperor Charles V, fresco in the Palazzo Farnese, Caprarola

Taddeo Zuccari, 16th century

Standing Beggar

Jan Both, 17th century

Grey wash drawing of an open landscape with a herdsman, cows, grazing sheep, a leaning tree, and a pool under cloudy skies.

Open Landscape with Herdsman, Cows, and Sheep

Thomas Gainsborough, ca. 1785

Grey chalk drawing of a mountain landscape with a leaning tree, distant valley, buildings and a winding path.

Mountain Landscape with Figures and Buildings

Thomas Gainsborough, mid-to-late 1780s

Graphite drawing of a wooded landscape with a standing man, seated woman, dog, fence and small cottage.

Landscape with Figures

George Frost, 18th or early 19th century

Watercolor woodland scene of a peasant leading a horse and cart along a forest path beside a pond.

Woodland Scene with a Peasant, a Horse, and a Cart

Thomas Gainsborough, ca. 1760

Sepia drawing of a figure resting with a donkey on a path beside large trees, with horses in the distance.

A Rest by the Way (Open Landscape with Figures, Donkey and Horses)

Thomas Gainsborough, ca. 1780

Soft green wash landscape of a thatched cottage, grazing cows and sheep, and windswept trees under dramatic clouds.

Wooded Landscape with Cottage, Cows and Sheep

Thomas Gainsborough, ca. 1770

Watercolor of a river lined with old buildings, moored sailing boats with masts, and figures on the quay under a pale sky.

River at Norwich

Thomas Girtin, early 19th century

Watercolor of Easby Abbey ruins and a gabled cottage beside a still river under a cloudy sky.

Easby Abbey

Thomas Girtin, 19th century

Pen and watercolor drawing of a woman in a white gown with red ribbons walking hand in hand with a child in blue ribbons.

Woman and Child

Kate Greenaway, 1883

Pencil portrait of a young man with curly hair, white collar and pink plaid cravat, on an octagonal tan sheet.

Portrait Head

George Henry Harlow, 1816

Red chalk drawing of many overlapping caricatured heads showing varied grimacing and shouting expressions.

Sheet of Studies of Heads

William Hogarth

Pencil sketch of a woman with long hair, head bowed, with faint figure studies beneath her on pale paper.

Head of a man and figure studies (recto). Minotaur with a maiden (verso)

Theodor Richard Edward von Holst, 1835-44

Sketch of a seated woman in flowing drapery, head resting on her hand beside a stone wall, in graphite on toned paper.

Study of a Seated Woman

John Hoppner, 1778-1810

Etched frontispiece with a winged figure striding over a Latin dedication panel while a screaming man recoils below.

Frontispiece for "Figurine"

Salvator Rosa, ca. 1656-57

Watercolor drawing of a standing young man in a white turban and long cream cloak, against a soft blue and beige wash.

Son of the Tunisian Ambassador

Ozias Humphry, 1780

Bearded Man in Oriental Costume

Ozias Humphry, ca. 1780

A warrior facing left wearing a plumed hat and holding a cane, from "Figurine"

Salvator Rosa, ca. 1656-57

Pen and brown ink study of a nude male figure reaching forward, with a smaller nude figure beneath him.

Studies of a Nude Male Figure

Ercole Procaccini The Younger, 17th century