Poblet Monastery Courtyard - Hand-Colored Laborde Engraving - 1810
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Poblet Monastery Courtyard - Hand-Colored Laborde Engraving - 1810

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Original 1810 engraving with original hand coloring showing one of the courtyards of the monastery of Poblet, framed by a large ashlar arch, with the lantern tower and the belfry beyond. Title at the foot in Spanish, French and English: Vista de uno de los Patios del Monasterio de Poblet.

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Original 1810 engraving with original hand coloring showing one of the courtyards of the monastery of Poblet, framed by a large ashlar arch, with the lantern tower and the belfry beyond. Title at the foot in Spanish, French and English: Vista de uno de los Patios del Monasterio de Poblet.

It comes from Alexandre de Laborde's Voyage pittoresque et historique de l'Espagne, published between 1806 and 1820; its engravings are today among the most reliable pictorial records of how Poblet looked before the suppression of 1835.

Medium: Copper engraving, etching and burin, hand-colored.
Artist / after: Ligier.
Engraver: Réville (etching) and Michel, per the caption.
Date: 1810-1811.
Source: Alexandre de Laborde, Voyage pittoresque et historique de l'Espagne.
Dimensions: Plate mark 13.8 x 9.8 in (35 x 25 cm).
Condition: Good, with full margins.

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