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The Seconda Macchina for the Chinea of 1729: The Ships of the Ostend Company and Trieste Company at the Pillars of Hercules

1729

Filippo Vasconi

Etcher, Italian, c. 1687 - 1730

Medium

etching
Credit Line

Gift of Vincent Buonanno in Honor of Andrew Robison
Dimensions

plate: 40 × 47.7 cm (15 3/4 × 18 3/4 in.)
Accession

2016.121.67.16
Catalogue Raisonné

Gori Sassoli no. 16

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The Seconda Macchina for the Chinea of 1732: The Rape of Ganymede

Giovanni Battista Sintes

1732

The Seconda Macchina for the Chinea of 1725: The Temple of Peace and Concord

Gasparo Massi

1725

The Prima Macchina for the Chinea of 1726: Hercules and the Hydra

Francesco Faraone Aquila

1726

Artwork history & notes

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. 16.

Inscriptions

Lettered LL: "Disegno et invenz.e di Gabriele Valvassori Arch.o dell'Ecc. Casa Colonna" and LR: "Filippo Vasconi Incise in Roma con lic. de Sup."

Wikidata ID

Q77260395

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