The Porta Nigra, Trier - Original Steel Engraving - 1845
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Original antique engraving of the Porta Nigra at Trier, the great fortified stone gate with its two tiers of arcading and the semicircular tower, with figures below that give the scale. Bilingual heading "France (Monuments Mérovingiens) / Francia (Monumentos Merovingios)" and caption "Porte à Trèves / Puerta en Treves".
Original antique engraving of the Porta Nigra at Trier, the great fortified stone gate with its two tiers of arcading and the semicircular tower, with figures below that give the scale. Bilingual heading "France (Monuments Mérovingiens) / Francia (Monumentos Merovingios)" and caption "Porte à Trèves / Puerta en Treves".
Medium: Steel engraving.
Artist / after: Léon Gaucherel.
Engraver / lithographer: workshop of Auguste Lemaitre (signed "Lemaitre direxit").
Date: 1845.
Source: Panorama Universal / L'Univers pittoresque, French-Spanish bilingual edition.
Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 in (21 x 13.5 cm).
Condition: Toned paper, with foxing scattered through the margins and small tears and folds at the edges; the image is clean.
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Original antique engraving of the Porta Nigra at Trier, the great fortified stone gate with its two tiers of arcading and the semicircular tower, with figures below that give the scale. Bilingual heading "France (Monuments Mérovingiens) / Francia (Monumentos Merovingios)" and caption "Porte à Trèves / Puerta en Treves".