Original antique engraving of the interior of the main cloister of El Escorial, with the temple of the Evangelists at the center, the clipped box gardens and the double arcading in perspective. Lettered below "Le dedans du grand cloître de l'Escurial".
Original antique engraving of the interior of the main cloister of El Escorial, with the temple of the Evangelists at the center, the clipped box gardens and the double arcading in perspective. Lettered below "Le dedans du grand cloître de l'Escurial".
From Les Délices de l'Espagne et du Portugal, published at Leiden by Pieter van der Aa in 1715.
Medium: Copper engraving (etching and burin).
Engraver / lithographer: Pieter van der Aa (Leiden, 1659-1733), engraver and publisher.
Date: 1715.
Source: Les Délices de l'Espagne et du Portugal, Leiden (Holland), 1715.
Condition: Good. Toned paper, with vertical creases and pale damp stains in the margins, outside the image.