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

Etching of Posi's design for the "seconda macchina" of 1771

printed 1771

- This etching for a fireworks construction or macchina is dedicated to Bacchus. The central pavilion contains a statue of Bacchus seated on a wine keg and the attic level consists of a trellis covered in grape vines. To either side of the central pavilion ruined archways frame scenes of people pressing grapes.

• record drawing

Etching

plate mark: 39.6 x 55.1 cm sheet: 44.5 x 60.6 cm

DR1988:0437:043

• line drawing

• pictorial drawing

• general view
• exterior view

- The sheet has three old vertical folds.

inscribed and dated - by an unknown hand, in the plate below the image, l.l. to l.r.: "Disegno della Secondo Machina rappresentante un Luogo di Delizia dedicato a Bacco. Incendiata per commando di Sua Eccellenza il Signor DON LORÈNZO COLONNA Gran / Contestabile del Regno di Napoli &c. &c. come Ambasciatore straordinario di SUA MAESTÀ IL RÈ delle due Sicilie &c. &c. &c. la sera de 29. Giugno 1771. Festa de Gloriosi Santi Apostoli / PIETRO e PAOLO in occasione d'aver presentata la Chinea alla Santità di Nostro Signore PAPA CLEMENTE XIV."; l.l.: "Cavalier Paolo Posi Archit.o Giuseppe Palazzi del."; l.r.: "Cavalier Giuseppe Vasi incise" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, verso, l.r.: "7" [written upside down] numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, verso, l.r.: "60"

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