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Pierre Parrocel, after Michelangelo Specchi

The Seconda Macchina for the Chinea of 1739: An Allegory of Public Happiness, 1739

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etching

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plate: 38 × 44.5 cm (14 15/16 × 17 1/2 in.)

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Gift of Vincent Buonanno in Honor of Andrew Robison

Accession Number

2016.121.67.27

Artists / Makers

Pierre Parrocel (etcher) French, 1670 - 1739

Michelangelo Specchi (artist after) Italian, 1684 - 1750

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Lettered LL: "Pietro Parrocel inv. dis. e incise" and LL: "Michel'Angelo Specchi Architetto"
Lettered LC, below image: "FELICITAS PUBLICA / Prospettiva della seconda Macchina rappresentante la Felicita' publica [...] l'Anno 1739"

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. 28.

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