Valladolid - Original Engraving by Pieter van der Aa - 1715
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Original copper engraving with a general view of Valladolid from the fields: the towers and bell gables of the town set against the horizon and, in the foreground, the walled gardens and the roads, where two figures stop to look at the city. Below, the cartouche with the name, "Valladolid".
Original copper engraving with a general view of Valladolid from the fields: the towers and bell gables of the town set against the horizon and, in the foreground, the walled gardens and the roads, where two figures stop to look at the city. Below, the cartouche with the name, "Valladolid".
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. 13
Date: 1715
Dimensions: 7.3 x 6.1 in (18.5 x 15.5 cm)
Condition: Fair; toned laid paper with binding folds and a paper loss at the upper left corner, outside the framing line; the image is complete and sharp
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Original copper engraving with a general view of Valladolid from the fields: the towers and bell gables of the town set against the horizon and, in the foreground, the walled gardens and the roads, where two figures stop to look at the city. Below, the cartouche with the name, "Valladolid".