Fireworks.- Philips (Jan Caspar) after Leonhard Stephan baron von Creuznach. Set of three prints, comprising Representation du Feu D'Artifice tire a la Hague le 13 Juin 1749, a l'occasion de la Paix d'Aix-la-Chapelle, an elevation view, copper engraving, 380 x 447 mm. (15 x 17 ½ in.); Plan et Profil du Superbe Edifice, Construit dans le Vivier a la Hague, ainsi que l'arrangement du Beau Feu D'Artifice, a keyed plan of the fireworks theatre, copper engraving, 380 x 445 mm. (15 x 17 ½ in.); Verklaaringe der Cyffers en Letters, letterpress explanatory key in Dutch, sheet 460 x 590 mm. (18 1/8 x 23 ¼ in.), the first two titled in Dutch and French, very slight creasing, faint waterstains at top edges, but very good examples with uncut edges, The Hague, A. de Groot & Fil. [1749] (3)

⁂ The display celebrated the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle which ended the War of the Spanish Succession. Creuznach, a Nuremberg artillery officer, claimed authorship of the design but posterity favours his rival pyrotechnician Pieter de Swart.

The set of three sheets is rare; cf. Kevin Salatino, Incendiary Art: The Representation of Fireworks in Early Modern Europe, Los Angeles, Getty Research Institute, 1997, Fig.24; Atlas van Stolk 3758.