Original antique engraving with the chandelier, the gilt bronze candelabra and the lecterns of the Pantheon of the Monastery of El Escorial, drawn with their scales in feet and inches and keyed to pages 277 and 287 of the text. An engraving from Les délices de l'Espagne et du Portugal, Leiden, 1715.
Original antique engraving with the chandelier, the gilt bronze candelabra and the lecterns of the Pantheon of the Monastery of El Escorial, drawn with their scales in feet and inches and keyed to pages 277 and 287 of the text. An engraving from Les délices de l'Espagne et du Portugal, Leiden, 1715.
Published by the Dutch bookseller, engraver and geographer Pieter van der Aa (Leiden, 1659-1733) and attributed to Juan Álvarez de Colmenar, this work was the most fully illustrated book on Spain published at the beginning of the 18th century.
Medium: Copper engraving
Publisher: Pieter van der Aa, Leiden
Date: 1715
Source: Les délices de l'Espagne et du Portugal, Leiden, 1715
Dimensions: Plate mark 6.3 x 4.9 in (16 x 12.5 cm); sheet 7.4 x 6.1 in (18.7 x 15.6 cm)
Condition: Toned paper, central binding fold and small tears in the left margin, outside the plate mark.