Take a print of an Oriental palace, and colour it properly. On the back
paste paper to make it but partially transparent. With differently sized
points prick small holes in the places, and on the lines where lamps and
lanterns are generally placed, as along the sides of windows, cornices,
arches of doors, balustrades, and as if suspended from trees. The
greater the supposed distance of these architectural and decorative
features, the smaller and closer these punctures must be. With large
punches cut out the stronger lights, as of Bengal fires in pots, and so
forth.
Cut out the panes of some of the windows, and paste at the back gelatine
paper of green or red colour, as if they were curtains within an
illuminated room.
Place the print thus prepared in the front of a box representing a
miniature theatre, strongly lighted from the back, and look at it
through a convex glass of a rather long focus.
There may be added some pieces of Chinese or artificial fireworks, moved
by clockwork.