Bonfire Collection

Hogarth, Four Times of the Day, Night
Hogarth, Four Times of the Day, 4. Night. In a narrow street leading to Charing Cross, with an equestrian statue of Charles I at the far end

Blackheath Fireworks
The fall of Sebastopol is celebrated with dramatic fireworks and a large bonfire on Blackheath

Advert, Standard Fireworks. 1928

The Parley, 1903, by Frederic Remington (1861-1909)
Frederic Remington (1861-1909). American painter. The Parley, 1903

November the Fifth, Bonfire Night in Lewes, Sussex
November the Fifth, Bonfire Night in the High Street, Lewes, Sussex. 1892

Jumping through Fire
A young couple from the Innviertel district of Austria jump through a bonfire on Saint Johns Eve, to bring themselves prosperity and happiness Date: 1889

Winter landscape with skaters by Droochsloot
Winter landscape with skaters (1629) by Joost Cornelisz Droochsloot (1586-1666). Dutch painter. Prado Museum. Madrid. Spain

Coronation bonfire at Whitehaven, 1902
A superbly constructed bonfire at Whitehaven, 120 feet in height and 155 feet in circumference, containing 600 tons of timber and brushwood

Garden Bonfire
Billowing smoke pollution caused by a garden bonfire. Date: 1960s

Preparing a bonfire for Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1897

Preparing a Jubilee bonfire in 1897

Crook Coronation Bonfire 22nd June 1911

Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee Bonfire, Pinner, Crawshawbooth, 1897

November in the Cornfields, a photographic study, by B Ward-Thompson. Showing furrows, bare earth, trees and a bonfire. Date: 1910

A stunt car flies through the air over a bonfire of tyres, watched by spectators standing in the rain. Date: 1960s

Cartoon, The Great Guy of the Season (Disraeli)
Cartoon, The Great Guy of the Season -- a satirical comment on the Liberal Party threat to the Conservative Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli

Guy Fawkes procession on bonfire night. 19th century

Villagers dancing around the bonfire for the feast of St. John the Baptist, midsummer. Lithograph from Henry Rene Allemagnes Sports and Games of Skill (Sports et Jeux d Adresse), Librairie Hachette

Guy Fawkes
A man from the country with a great display of the gunpowder plotters, asking " A penny for the Guy!" at neighbouring houses. Date: circa 1850s

Guy Fawkess Day
Please remember the fifth of November, Gunpowder treason and plot, I see no reason why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot, with verse. 1867

Burning refuse in November Date: 9th Century

Cartoon, The Popular Guy (Lloyd George): I see no reason why government treason should ever be forgot! Date: 1919

Martin Luther (1483-1546) burning the papal bull Exsurge Do
Martin Luther, (Eisleben, 1483, Eisleben, 1546). German reformer. Doctor of Theology and Augustinian priest. In 1517, outlined the main thesis of Lutheranism in Wittenberg

Bonfire Society float, East Dean, East Sussex
Bonfire Society float on the recreation ground in East Dean, East Sussex, with carthorses Diamond and Damsel. Date: circa 1960

Young children gather wood to build a bonfire in Eccles. Date: circa 1977

Suffragette Arson Bristol. A view of the W.S.P.U shop office in Bristol, wrecked by the University students 24th October 1913

Auto-da-fe of the Spanish Inquisition. Engraving by Vergeil (19th c.). Engraving

Penny for the Guy
People You See. Penny for the Guy. From Teddy Bear (6 November 1965)

Guy Fawkes Night - lighting firework laden guys
The Boy Who Got There First. A young boy defies health and safety rules by lighting the first of three Guy Fawkes all stuffed full of various fireworks. Date: 1932

Indigenous peoples of the Americas. 16th century. Cooking. Engraving, 1841

Susi - Penny for the Guy -- getting ready for Bonfire Night. 1950s

Susi - with white flag and fireworks
Susi - with white flag -- Join My Anti-Fireworks Demo! 1950s

A young boy asks Penny for the guy around Bonfire Night Date: Cicra 1980

Ponca indians roasting fish. Engraving
Native of North America. Ponca Indians roasting fish. French engraving, 1844

USA. Settlers building their homes in the West (1874). Colored engraving

Gothic art. Spain. 14th century. Catalan School. Master of Tora. The Annunciation. Table dedicated to the Virgin. Painting on wood. National Art Museum of Catalonia. Barcelona. Spain

Cantigas de Santa Mari?a (Canticles of Holy Mary). Reign of Alfonso X of Castile, the Wise (1221-1284). Medieval lady spinning wool. Library of El Escorial. Madrid. Spain. National Heritage

Sacrifice of Joachim and faintness. Codex of Predis (1476). Royal Library. Turin. Italy

Boy Eats Toffee Apple
A little boy tries not to break his teeth on a toffee apple! Date: 1960s

Catherine Great / Sleigh
Catherine the Great travels in a sleigh. Date: circa 1780

St Johns Fires
SAINT JOHNs NIGHT Midsummer Eve is celebrated in Bretagne with song, dance and the traditional bonfire Date: 1893

Moles and Fieldmice
French country children playing at Taupes et Mulots (moles and fieldmice) round the New Years Eve bonfire Date: 1855

Cartoon, True Reform of Parliament, ie Patriots lighting a Revolutionary Bonfire in New Palace Yard, by James Gillray. Showing Sir Francis Burdett at the centre

King George V Jubilee Bonfire, Delph, Lancashire
King George V Jubilee Bonfire, Delph, Oldham, Lancashire, England. Date: 1935

Boys on a pile of rubbish, Balham, SW London
Boys on a pile of rubbish in a Balham street, SW London. Perhaps it has been stacked up ready for bonfire night! Date: circa 1961

A Russian family celebrates New Year by a bonfire in taiga-forest. outskirts of Vsevolodo-Blagodatskoye village; typical in North Ural Mountains, Russia

Guy-ser Fawkes - the Kaiser caricatured, WW1
Kaiser Wilhelm II as a substitute for Guy Fawkes on the Fifth of November 1914. The Guy-sers were made by the toy department of the Womens Emergency Corps and were sold by a celebrated authoress

Suffragette on Bonfire West Chislehurst 1908. A group of of men with pitchforks place two suffragette figures on top of the bonfire at West Chislehurst, Kent

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