Braga, Portugal - Original Plan by Pieter van der Aa - 1715
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Original copper engraving with Braga, "metropolis of Portugal", drawn as a bird's-eye view: the walled enclosure, the web of streets, convents and gardens, the rivers and the roads leading out among tilled fields. A cartouche with the arms of the city and a compass rose in the upper corners; the key below identifies the cathedral, the archbishop's palace, the Theatine college and the Roman remains.
Original copper engraving with Braga, "metropolis of Portugal", drawn as a bird's-eye view: the walled enclosure, the web of streets, convents and gardens, the rivers and the roads leading out among tilled fields. A cartouche with the arms of the city and a compass rose in the upper corners; the key below identifies the cathedral, the archbishop's palace, the Theatine college and the Roman remains.
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 the Peninsula 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. 138
Date: 1715
Dimensions: 6.9 x 6.1 in (17.5 x 15.5 cm)
Condition: Good condition; toned laid paper, with binding folds and irregular margins; the image remains sharp
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Original copper engraving with Braga, "metropolis of Portugal", drawn as a bird's-eye view: the walled enclosure, the web of streets, convents and gardens, the rivers and the roads leading out among tilled fields. A cartouche with the arms of the city and a compass rose in the upper corners; the key below identifies the cathedral, the archbishop's palace, the Theatine college and the Roman remains.