• Giuseppe Pozzi (etcher)
• Giuseppe Palazzi (draughtsman)
• Paolo Posi (architect)
• Lorenzo Colonna (patron)
• Ferdinand I, King of the Two Sicilies (patron)
• Pope Benedict XIV (dedicatee)

Etching of Posi's design for the "seconda macchina" of 1757

printed 1757

- This etching for a fireworks construction or macchina is in the form of a fortress which is meant to represent a "Cuccagna" (land of plenty) such as was created in the Two Sicilies. The fortress is decorated with trophies and with game, and is flanked by two fountains.

• record drawing

Etching

plate mark: 36.3 x 53.0 cm sheet: 45.7 x 66.1 cm

DR1988:0437:026

• line drawing

• pictorial drawing

• general view
• exterior view

- The sheet has an old fold down the c.

inscribed and dated - by an unknown hand, in the plate below the image, l.l. to l.r.: "Disegno della Seconda Machina rappresentante una Cuccagna a similitudine di quelle che si fanno nei feliccissimi Regni delle due Sicilie. Incendiata per commando di Sua Ec= / cellenza Il Sig.r Principe DON LORÈNZO COLONNA Gran Contestabile del Regno di Napoli &c. &c. Ambascciatore straordinario di SUA MAESTÀ IL RÈ delle due Sicilie &c. &c. &c. / nel giorno de Gloriosi SS. APOSTOLI PIETRO, e PAOLO dopo la presentazione della Chinea alla Santità di Nostro Signor PAPA BENEDETTO XIV. l'Anno 1757. / Giuseppe Palazzi disegnò"; l.l.: "Paolo Posi Architetto"; l.r.: "Giuseppe Pozzi incise" dated and numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the print outside the plate mark, l.r.: "1757-II" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the print outside the plate mark, l.r.: "9"

• architecture temporaire