The City of Granada - Original Engraving by Pieter van der Aa - 1715
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Original copper engraving with a general view of Granada from the plain, with the Alhambra on its hill, the cathedral and the town spread out below the Sierra Nevada, and muleteers with their animals in the foreground. The numbered key identifies eight points: the cathedral, the Alhambra, the Elvira quarter, the Granada quarter, the Antequeruela, the Sierra Nevada, the Teatinos and Santa Elena.
Original copper engraving with a general view of Granada from the plain, with the Alhambra on its hill, the cathedral and the town spread out below the Sierra Nevada, and muleteers with their animals in the foreground. The numbered key identifies eight points: the cathedral, the Alhambra, the Elvira quarter, the Granada quarter, the Antequeruela, the Sierra Nevada, the Teatinos and Santa Elena.
It comes from Les délices de l'Espagne et du Portugal, published in Leiden by Pieter van der Aa in 1715, the most fully illustrated work on Spain to appear in the early eighteenth century, whose text was ascribed to Juan Álvarez de Colmenar, a pseudonym of the publisher himself.
Medium: Copper engraving
Engraver / lithographer: Pieter van der Aa (Leiden, 1659-1733)
Source: Les délices de l'Espagne et du Portugal, Leiden, 1715, p. 99
Date: 1715
Dimensions: 7.7 x 6.1 in (19.5 x 15.5 cm)
Condition: Good condition; toned laid paper, with the central binding fold and irregular margins; the image remains sharp
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Original copper engraving with a general view of Granada from the plain, with the Alhambra on its hill, the cathedral and the town spread out below the Sierra Nevada, and muleteers with their animals in the foreground. The numbered key identifies eight points: the cathedral, the Alhambra, the Elvira quarter, the Granada quarter, the Antequeruela, the Sierra Nevada, the Teatinos and Santa Elena.