ID: 700000590 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000590	Record Type: Movable Work

Disegno della prima machina rappresentante la Reggia d'Orfèo (etching (print); Vasi, Giuseppe (etcher, 1710-1782); probably published 1766; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 672377; (CMalG)1394-070; accession number: P950001** (FF. 36))

Note: The print depicts the daytime view of a pyrotechnical machine built in Rome in the form of an multilevel semi-circular architectural structure, designed by the architect Paolo Posi. The structure also serves as a stage on which Orpheus is seen playing music, surrounded by animals. The machine was erected for a festival known as Festa della Chinea, the annual presentation by the King of the Two Sicilies of a white horse to the Pope on the Feast of St. Peter and St. Paul (cf. Lotz); Forms part of Brock fireworks collection (Special Collections accn. no. P950001**) Publication: [1766?]

Titles:

Disegno della prima machina rappresentante la Reggia d'Orfèo (preferred,C,U,RP,Italian-P,U,U)

Macchina by Paolo Posi for fireworks and a performance for the Festa della Chinea in Rome on the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul in 1766 (C,U,DE,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

etching (print) [300041365] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, intaglio prints)

prints (visual works) [300041273]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

prints (preferred)

Creation Date: probably published 1766

Creator Display:

Vasi, Giuseppe (etcher, 1710-1782) [preferred,GRISC]

printmaker Vasi, Giuseppe (Italian printmaker, archaeologist, 1710-1782) [500018222]

artist Posi, Paolo (Italian architect, 1708-1776) Extent: work depicted [500009113]

Locations:

Current: Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500353615] Getty Research Institute, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 672377; (CMalG)1394-070; accession number: P950001** (FF. 36)

Credit Line: copyright J. Paul Getty Trust, Getty Research Institute, Special Collections

Address Note: 1200 Getty Center Dr., Suite 1100, Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688

Display Materials: 1 print: etching

	prints (visual works) [300041273]
	.......(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

	etching (printing process) [300053241]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, intaglio printing processes)

Dimensions: plate mark 39.7 x 53.9 cm, on sheet 40.3 x 54.7 cm

General Subject:

events (preferred)

history and legend

another work

Specific Subjects:

	machina (structures) [300048776]
	.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by design>, temporary structures) (AAT)

	ephemeral structure [300007997]
	.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by design>) (AAT)

	festivals (celebrations) [300073472]
	.....(Activities Facet, Events (hierarchy name), events (activities), cultural events, celebrations) (AAT)

	Colonna, Lorenzo Onofrio (Italian noble and patron, 1637-1689) [500260808]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	Chinea, Festa della [300404034]
	.....(Activities Facet, Events (hierarchy name), events (activities), cultural events, holidays, local holidays) (AAT)

	fireworks (visual works) [300249836]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>) (AAT)

	horse (species) [300250148]
	.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum), Mammalia (class), Perissodactyla (order), Equidae (family), Equus (genus)) (AAT)

Provenance: From the collection of Alan Brock and his son, Alan St. Hill Brock, English pyrotechnists; Jacques Vellekoop; London; Purchase

Inscriptions: Disegno della prima machina rappresentante la Reggia d'Orfèo incendiata per comando di Sua Eccellenza il Sig.r Don Lorenzo Colonna Gran Contestabile del Regno di Napoli && come ambasciatore straordinario di Sua Maestà il rè delle Due Sicilie &&& in congiuntura della presentazione della Chinea alla Santità di Nostro Signore papa Clemente XIII nella vigilia de gloriosi santi apostoli Pietro, e Paolo l'anno MDCCLXVI. Title engraved below the image.; "Cavaliere Paolo Posi Architetto"--engraved in the lower left below the image.; "Giuseppe Vasi incise"--engraved in the lower right below the image.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Disegno della prima machina rappresentante la Reggia d'Orfèo	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 672377
Macchina by Paolo Posi for fireworks and a performance for the Festa della Chinea in Rome on the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul in 1766	........ [VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) note

Subject: ....... [GRISC,VP]

....................... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

....................... Lotz, A. Das Feuerwerk p. 7 and p. 17

Note:
English	..... [GRISC,VP]
	..... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)