General View of Merida - Original Hand-Colored Laborde Engraving - 1810
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Original engraving by Alexandre de Laborde, hand-colored, about 1810, with the general view of Merida from the Guadiana: the Roman bridge reaching toward the town and the Moorish Alcazaba closing it to the south, the towers rising above the rooftops.
Original engraving by Alexandre de Laborde, hand-colored, about 1810, with the general view of Merida from the Guadiana: the Roman bridge reaching toward the town and the Moorish Alcazaba closing it to the south, the towers rising above the rooftops.
From the Voyage pittoresque et historique de l'Espagne, the most ambitious publishing venture devoted to Spain: four large folio volumes with more than nine hundred prints, the fruit of Laborde's journeys through the Peninsula between 1800 and 1805. Drawing by Ligier, engraved by F. B. Lorieux, title at the foot in Spanish, French and English.
Medium: Copper engraving, hand-colored.
Artist / after: Ligier.
Engraver: F. B. Lorieux.
Date: c. 1810.
Source: Alexandre de Laborde, Voyage pittoresque et historique de l'Espagne.
Dimensions: Plate mark 12.2 x 15.9 in (31 x 40.5 cm), height x width, with wide margins.
Condition: Good overall, the image clean; scattered foxing in the margins, chiefly at the upper left and lower right corners.
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Original engraving by Alexandre de Laborde, hand-colored, about 1810, with the general view of Merida from the Guadiana: the Roman bridge reaching toward the town and the Moorish Alcazaba closing it to the south, the towers rising above the rooftops.