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The Prima Macchina for the Chinea of 1755: A Triumphal Bridge with Antiquities from Herculaneum

Giuseppe Vasi, after Paolo Posi

Credit: Gift of Vincent Buonanno in Honor of Andrew Robison

1755
Etching
2016.121.20
Image © National Gallery of Art, 2020

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