Procession of Pilgrims at Compostela - Original Engraving - 1715
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Original copper engraving with the procession of the pilgrims at Santiago de Compostela: a very long train of hooded confraternity members, clergy and banners going round the square before the church, with coaches, riders and crowds packed into the side streets. Below, "Procession des Pelerins à Compostelle".
Original copper engraving with the procession of the pilgrims at Santiago de Compostela: a very long train of hooded confraternity members, clergy and banners going round the square before the church, with coaches, riders and crowds packed into the side streets. Below, "Procession des Pelerins à Compostelle".
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. 10
Date: 1715
Dimensions: 6.9 x 6.1 in (17.5 x 15.5 cm)
Condition: Good condition; toned laid paper, with irregular margins and some rubbing at the edges; the image very sharp despite the minute detail of the figures
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Original copper engraving with the procession of the pilgrims at Santiago de Compostela: a very long train of hooded confraternity members, clergy and banners going round the square before the church, with coaches, riders and crowds packed into the side streets. Below, "Procession des Pelerins à Compostelle".