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

Etching of Posi's design for the "prima macchina" of 1761

printed 1761

- This etching for a fireworks construction or macchina is in the form of a bathing pavilion with several fountains. The top of the pavilion is decorated with a trellis archway covered in vines.

• record drawing

Etching

plate mark: 39.2 x 54.2 cm sheet: 43.7 x 59.4 cm

DR1988:0437:030

• line drawing

• pictorial drawing

• general view
• exterior view

- The sheet has an old fold down the c. and has been trimmed unevenly.

numbered - by a later hand, in graphite, on the print outside the plate mark, l.r.: "I" inscribed and dated - by an unknown hand, in the plate below the image, l.l. to l.r.: "Prospetto della Prima Machina rappresentante Magnifico, e delizioso Edificio destinato a salubri Bagni. Eretta per comando di Sua Eccellenza il Sig.r D. LORÈNZO COLONNA Gran Contestabile del Regno / di Napoli &. &.c. come Ambasciatore straordinario di S. M. il RÈ delle due Sicilie &. &. &. in congiuntura della presentazione della Chiena alla Santità di Nostro Signore PAPA CLEMENTE XIII. nella vigi= / lia della Gloriosi SS. Apostoli PIETRO, e PAOLO l'Anno MDCCLXI."; l.l.: "Paolo Posi Architetto"; b.: "Giuseppe Palazzi disegnò"; l.r.: "Giuseppe Vasi incise" dated - by an unknown hand, in pen and brown ink, on the print outside the plate mark, l.r.: "1761"

• architecture temporaire