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The First "Macchina" for the Festa della Chinea of 1731

Niccolò Michetti
-1759

The First "Macchina" for the Festa della Chinea of 1731

15 7/8 x 18 13/16 inches (402 x 477 mm)
Pen and brown and black ink, with gray wash, over traces of graphite, on paper; framing line in brown ink.
1994.6:1

Purchased on the Sunny Crawford von Bülow Fund 1978.

Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower left, in pen and brown ink, "NM".
Bibliography
Denison, Cara D., with contributions by Stephanie Wiles and Ruth S. Kraemer. Fantasy and Reality : Drawings from the Sunny Crawford von Bülow Collection. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1995, no. 32a, repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department