Fireworks at Green Park, St James's, April 27th Size:S: 40 x 30cm Sir John Everett Millais

Sir John Everett Millais

Plate 34 from volume I of The natural history of Carolina

and be Very Thankful'

November 11

Viceroy of India

Fireworks at Green Park, St James's, April 27th Size:S: 40 x 30cm Sir John Everett MillaisFireworks at Green Park, St James's, April 27th, 1749. 'The Grand Whim for Prosperity to Laugh at: Being the night view of the royal fireworks as exhibited in the Green Park, St James's with the right wing on fire and the cutting away the two middle arches to prevent the whole fabric from being destroyed.' A fireworks display, with music specially composed by Handel, was held to celebrate the end of the War of the Austrian Succession and the signing