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Miguel de Sorellò, after Michelangelo Specchi

The Prima Macchina for the Chinea of 1749: The Temple of Peace, 1749

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Medium

etching

Dimensions

plate: 40.3 × 47.2 cm (15 7/8 × 18 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Vincent Buonanno in Honor of Andrew Robison

Accession Number

2016.121.67.38

Artists / Makers

Miguel de Sorellò (etcher) Spanish, c. 1700 - c. 1765

Michelangelo Specchi (artist after) Italian, 1684 - 1750

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Lettered LC: "Michelangelo Specchi Architetto Deputato" and "Michele Sorello' inc. in Roma con lic. de Sup."

Lettered LC, below image: "Prospettiva della Prima Macchina de Fuochi d'artifizio rappresentante il Tipo della Pace abbracciata per festeggiare ... l'an.o 1749"

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. 47.

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The Prima Macchina for the Chinea of 1749: The Temple of Peace, 1749

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