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Pierre Parrocel

The Prima Macchina for the Chinea of 1738: Allegory of Regal Providence, 1738

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Medium

etching

Dimensions

plate: 38.5 × 45.8 cm (15 3/16 × 18 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Vincent Buonanno in Honor of Andrew Robison

Catalogue Raisonné

Gori Sassoli no. 25

Accession Number

2016.121.3

Artists / Makers

Pierre Parrocel (artist) French, 1670 - 1739

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Inscription

Lettered LL: "Pietro Parrocel dis. e incise"
Lettered LC: "Sicelides Musae paullo maiora canamus [...] l'anno 1738"

Bibliography

1994: Gori Sassoli, Mario. Della Chinea e di altre "Macchine di gioia". Apparati architettonici per fuochi d'artificio a Roma nel Settecento. Milan, 1994, no. 25.

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