Fanciful Costumes: Costume of the Fireworks Maker

Nicolas de Larmessin II

Cleveland Museum of Art

Black and white illustration of a man wearing elaborate costume. The man has on a feathered helmet, a breastplate with two circles on it, a short skirt with tubes and a round object hanging from it, and leg coverings. The man holds a smoking tube in his right hand and a long stick in his left hand. The stick has a rocket on top. The costume has various apparatuses attached. The man stands on a cobblestone street. Smoke billows from the ground behind the man, and tubes are scattered on the ground around him. In the background is a large fountain with water spraying from it and a pillar with a statue on top to the right. The image has a thin border around it and French writing at the bottom.