• Giuseppe Palazzi (draughtsman)
• Giuseppe Vasi (etcher)
• Paolo Posi (architect)
• Lorenzo Colonna (patron)
• Ferdinand I, King of the Two Sicilies (patron)
• Pope Clement XIII (dedicatee)

Etching of Posi's design for the "seconda macchina" of 1765

printed 1765

- This etching for a fireworks construction or macchina is in the form of a two-storey façade. The windows and balusters of the façade are hung with drapery like a contemporary palace for a festival. The attic storey is topped by escutcheons and fleur-de-lis. The poles on either side of the macchina are hung with game and fish.

• record drawing

Etching

plate mark: 39.0 x 53.4 cm sheet: 43.8 x 57.7 cm

DR1988:0437:034

• 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 incendiata per comando di Sua Eccellenza il Signor DON LORÈNZO COLONNA Gran Contestabile del Regno di Napoli & & / come Ambasciatore straordinario di SUA MAESTÀ['] IL RÈ['] delle Due Sicilie & & & la Sera de i 29. Giugno 1765. Festa de i Gloriosi Santi Apostoli PIETRO e PAOLO / in occasione d'aver presentata la Chinea alla Santità['] di Nostro Signore PAPA CLEMENTE XIII."; l.l.: "Caval.r Paolo Posi Architetto Giuseppe Palazzi disegno[']"; l.r.: "Giuseppe Vasi incise" dated and inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the print outside the plate mark, u.r.: "1765 / Gingn[inscription cut off]" dated and inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the print outside the plate mark, l.r.: "1765 / II"

• architecture temporaire