Poblet Monastery Entrance, Spain - Original Laborde Engraving - 1810
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Poblet Monastery Entrance, Spain - Original Laborde Engraving - 1810

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Original 1810 engraving of the entrance to the monastery of Poblet (Tarragona): the two towers of the Royal Gate flanking the entrance arch and the crenellated curtain wall. An impression from Laborde's Voyage pittoresque. Poblet appears here intact, a quarter of a century before the suppression and sacking of 1835.

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Original 1810 engraving of the entrance to the monastery of Poblet (Tarragona): the two towers of the Royal Gate flanking the entrance arch and the crenellated curtain wall. An impression from Laborde's Voyage pittoresque. Poblet appears here intact, a quarter of a century before the suppression and sacking of 1835.

Medium: Copper engraving, etching and burin.
Artist / after: Ligier.
Engraver: F. B. Lorieux.
Date: 1810-1811.
Source: Alexandre de Laborde, Voyage pittoresque et historique de l'Espagne.
Dimensions: Plate mark 9.1 x 12.6 in (23 x 32 cm).
Condition: Small foxing spots in the margins; image clean. Mounted in a mat.

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