Original engraving with the plan of Puigcerdà, the fortified town of the Cerdanya: the bastioned enclosure at the center of the plain, with the fields, the roads and the rivers Segre and Carol identified in the key. A putto holds the title cartouche with the scale.
Original engraving with the plan of Puigcerdà, the fortified town of the Cerdanya: the bastioned enclosure at the center of the plain, with the fields, the roads and the rivers Segre and Carol identified in the key. A putto holds the title cartouche with the scale.
From Les Délices de l'Espagne et du Portugal, published in Leiden by Pieter van der Aa and attributed to Juan Álvarez de Colmenar.
Medium: Copper engraving on copper.
Engraver / publisher: Pieter van der Aa (Leiden, 1659-1733).
Date: 1715.
Source: Les Délices de l'Espagne et du Portugal, Leiden (Holland).
Dimensions: Plate mark 2.6 x 4.9 in (6.6 x 12.4 cm); sheet 3.7 x 6.4 in (9.4 x 16.3 cm).
Condition: A light damp stain at the center of the image and slight toning of the paper; otherwise good.