Art, literature & history
The Prima Macchina for the Chinea of 1738: Allegory of Regal Providence
1738
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching
- Dimensions
- plate: 38.5 × 45.8 cm (15 3/16 × 18 1/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2016.121.3
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Pierre Parrocel. The Prima Macchina for the Chinea of 1738: Allegory of Regal Providence. Pierre Parrocel; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pierre_Parrocel,_The_Prima_Macchina_for_the_Chinea_of_1738_-_Allegory_of_Regal_Providence,_1738,_NGA_208130.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Prima Macchina for the Chinea of 1738: Allegory of Regal Providence — Pierre Parrocel. 1738.
Medium: etching.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 38.5 × 45.8 cm (15 3/16 × 18 1/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2016.121.3. Gift of Vincent Buonanno in Honor of Andrew Robison.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.