Basque Costumes of Biscay - Original Van der Aa Engraving - 1707
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Original 1707 engraving with folk costumes of the Basque Country: countrymen and countrywomen on their way to market, Biscayan and Gascon girls, a woman of Saint-Jean-de-Luz, women of Bayonne and Biscayan women going to church. All the figures are named in the key below, «Habits des Biscayens & des Biscayennes».
Original 1707 engraving with folk costumes of the Basque Country: countrymen and countrywomen on their way to market, Biscayan and Gascon girls, a woman of Saint-Jean-de-Luz, women of Bayonne and Biscayan women going to church. All the figures are named in the key below, «Habits des Biscayens & des Biscayennes».
It comes from the work of Juan Álvarez de Colmenar published by Pieter van der Aa in Leiden in 1707, the most extensive illustrated account of Spain to appear at the beginning of the 18th century.
Medium: Copper engraving.
Artist / after: Juan Álvarez de Colmenar.
Engraver: workshop of Pieter van der Aa, Leiden.
Date: 1707.
Source: Les Délices de l'Espagne et du Portugal, Pieter van der Aa, Leiden, 1707 (first edition); sheet from page 100.
Dimensions: Image 4.9 x 6.2 in (12.4 x 15.8 cm); sheet 6.1 x 6.6 in (15.4 x 16.8 cm).
Condition: Sound, with good margins. There is a stain in the lower part, toward the right corner, which can be seen in the photograph.
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Original 1707 engraving with folk costumes of the Basque Country: countrymen and countrywomen on their way to market, Biscayan and Gascon girls, a woman of Saint-Jean-de-Luz, women of Bayonne and Biscayan women going to church. All the figures are named in the key below, «Habits des Biscayens & des Biscayennes».