{"product_id":"la-macchina-di-marly-sulla-senna","title":"The Marly Machine on the Seine","description":"\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe artwork\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOn the left, halfway down the sheet, beside the aqueduct, a label reads “Maison de Mr de Ville”: it is the house Louis XIV gave to the man who had proposed this machine to him.\u003c\/strong\u003e You receive it printed on handmade Amalfi paper, in a handmade frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Marly Machine in cross-section, piece by piece, and the hill up to Saint-Germain.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn an engineer's study the gears catch the eye.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA gift for anyone who loves Versailles or wants to see how a machine works.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArnold de Ville, from Liège, proposed bringing the water of the Seine to the top of the hill, for the king's gardens. The machine was built by a carpenter from the same region, Rennequin Sualem. On 13 June 1684 Louis XIV watched the trial: fourteen wheels 12 metres across drove more than 200 pumps and pushed the water over 150 metres uphill. It ran day and night, with a tremendous racket, until 1817. In 1769 de Ville's house went to Madame du Barry, a gift from Louis XV; Sualem, who kept the machine running until his death in 1708, got a memorial plaque at Bougival that reads “seul inventeur”: the sole inventor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe plate comes from the \u003cem\u003eAtlas Curieux\u003c\/em\u003e of Nicolas de Fer, who published it in 1716. At the top is the cross-section, the “Coupe de la Machine de Marly”, with a key from 1 to 15 for every part and the piles driven into the riverbed; on the right there are even gratings against the ice. At the bottom, the “Veue generale”: the hillside with its reservoirs and the rows of rocking beams that carried the motion up the slope; on the horizon, the château of Saint-Germain-en-Laye. The copy reproduced here belongs to the David Rumsey Map Collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt looks right in an engineer's study and is a gift for anyone who loves Versailles, or who never passes a gearwheel without stopping to see how it turns. Up there by the aqueduct, Monsieur de Ville's house keeps an eye on Sualem's wheels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUnique quality material\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePrint on handmade Amalfi paper\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSheet size\u003c\/strong\u003e: 29 x 42 cm (11.4 x 16.5 in)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWith frame\u003c\/strong\u003e: 31 x 44 cm (12.2 x 17.3 in)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMaterial\u003c\/strong\u003e: artwork printed on very fine handmade Amalfi paper with deckled edges\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrame\u003c\/strong\u003e: dark brown with gold fillet, handmade, with glass\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Trizio Editore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55584736444757,"sku":"UIG4EA188MR71","price":190.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0768\/3411\/1829\/files\/la-macchina-di-marly-sulla-senna-principale.jpg?v=1793361259","url":"https:\/\/trizioeditore.it\/en\/products\/marly-machine-on-the-seine-de-fer-print","provider":"Trizio Editore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}