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Description: | Coloured aquatint . This coloured engraving by Matthew Dubourg, made after an original work by John Heaviside Clark, shows the fortress in Green Park which was transformed from the Temple of Discorde into the Temple of Concorde, in honour of the Grand Jubilee celebrations on 1 August 1814. The Prince Regent (later King George IV) declared a Grand Jubilee in celebration of the recent victory over Napoleon and a centenary of Hanoverian rule.
Sir William Congreve (1772-1828) devised a mechanism to enable the metamorphosis of the Temple of Discorde, which was revealed momentarily amid a cloud of fireworks. Whilst the fireworks display continued, English aeronaut Windham Sadler ascended in his balloon and dropped ‘favours’ and programmes to the crowd below. The print was published by Edward Orme on 12 August 1814. | Subjects: | topography park wagon fireworks fair/festival/carnival celebration balloon crowd | Temporal: | 1814 | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | John Heaviside Clark (Artist) | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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