Porta Coeli Charterhouse, Valencia - Hand-Colored Laborde Engraving - 1810
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Porta Coeli Charterhouse, Valencia - Hand-Colored Laborde Engraving - 1810

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Original 1810 engraving with the charterhouse of Porta Coeli (Serra, Valencia) taken from within the hills, among the slopes of the Sierra Calderona; the title is at the foot in Spanish, French and English. The charterhouse, founded in 1272, was one of the most important houses of the order in the Crown of Aragon.

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Original 1810 engraving with the charterhouse of Porta Coeli (Serra, Valencia) taken from within the hills, among the slopes of the Sierra Calderona; the title is at the foot in Spanish, French and English. The charterhouse, founded in 1272, was one of the most important houses of the order in the Crown of Aragon.

Medium: Copper engraving (etching and burin), hand-colored.
Artist / after: Jacques Moulinier (1753-1828).
Engraver: François Jacques Dequevauviller (Paris, 1783 - c. 1848), over an etching by Coulet.
Date: 1810.
Source: Alexandre de Laborde, Voyage pittoresque et historique de l'Espagne, published in four volumes between 1806 and 1820.
Dimensions: Plate mark 12.4 x 17.1 in (31.5 x 43.5 cm).
Condition: Very good. Sheet with wide margins and a well marked plate mark.

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