Description Medium: Etching / engraving on hand laid (verge) paper. Sheet size: 44 x 37.6 cm (17.32 x 14.8 inch). Image size: 43 x 37 cm. (16.93 x 14.57 inch). Condition: good, given age. Light foxing, creasing and soiling. Horizontal and vertical fold with some paper separation at the folds. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully. BAROQUE, ALLEGORY, ROYALTY, BIRTH, MYTHOLOGY, ENGRAVING, DIVINE RIGHT, COURT ART | PCO-B8-45 BACKGROUND INFORMATION For: ‘The Festa della Chinea’, which roughly translates as ‘Festival of the Wandering Nag’, was a historic festival held in Rome bi-annually until the late eighteenth century (1788), in which the viceroy of the Kingdom of Naples was required to pay his homage to the pope. This entailed, among other things, the offering of a white horse (‘nag’) that formed part of a procession through the streets of Rome. Reference: Gori Sassoli, Mario. Della Chinea e di altre “Macchine di gioia”. Apparati architettonici per fuochi d’artificio a Roma nel Settecento. Milan, 1994, no. 30. Biography engraver: Pierre Ignace Parrocel (1702-1775), French, son of Pierre Parrocel (1670-1739).
