# The Prima Macchina for the Chinea of 1729: Hercules Germanicus in the Theater of Virtues

- By: Filippo Vasconi (Italian, c. 1687 - 1730)
- By: Gabriele Valvassori (Italian, 1683 - 1761)
- Date: 1729
- Medium: etching
- Classification: Print
- Dimensions: plate: 40.5 × 47.7 cm (15 15/16 × 18 3/4 in.)
- Credit line: Gift of Vincent Buonanno in Honor of Andrew Robison
- Museum: [National Gallery of Art](https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.211604.html)
- Rights: [Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://api.nga.gov/iiif/52a2d993-7a35-46c9-a0e7-28dd2db2ee75/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
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