Paolo Posi
1708-1776
Design for the Second Pyrotechnic Machine for the Festival of the Chinea of 1760
16 1/8 x 22 1/4 inches (409 x 565 mm)
Pen and brown ink, with gray and brown wash, on paper.
1962.8
Purchased as the gift of the Fellows.
Notes
Engraved by Giuseppe Vasi.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed at lower right of border, in pen and brown ink, "Paolo Posi Architetto"; inscribed within border, in pen and brown ink, "Prospetto della Seconda Machina rappresentante una Deliziosa all'uso cinese. Eretta per commando di Sua Eccellenza il Sig. DON LORENZO COLONNA Gran / Contestabile del Regno di Napoli &.&. come Ambasciatore straordinario di S.M. il RE' delle due Sicilie &.&.&. la Sera delli 29. Giugno 1760. Festa di Gloriosa Santi / Apostoli PIETRO, e PAOLO in occasione d'aver presentata la Chinea alla Santita' di Nostro Signore PAPA CLEMENTE XIII".
Associated names
Calmann, Hans M., former owner.
Bibliography
Adams, Frederick B., Jr., comp. Twelfth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1962. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1963, p. 88-89.
Pierpont Morgan Library. Review of Acquisitions, 1949-1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 161.
Stampfle, Felice, and Jacob Bean. Drawings from New York collections. III: The eighteenth century in Italy. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1971, no. 180, repr.
Pierpont Morgan Library. Review of Acquisitions, 1949-1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 161.
Stampfle, Felice, and Jacob Bean. Drawings from New York collections. III: The eighteenth century in Italy. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1971, no. 180, repr.
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