Porta Coeli Charterhouse Aqueducts - Hand-Colored Laborde Engraving - 1810
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Original 1810 engraving with the charterhouse of Porta Coeli (Serra, Valencia) taken from the aqueducts: the long arcade that supplied the monastery with water crosses the foreground, with the church and the outbuildings set into the Sierra Calderona.
Original 1810 engraving with the charterhouse of Porta Coeli (Serra, Valencia) taken from the aqueducts: the long arcade that supplied the monastery with water crosses the foreground, with the church and the outbuildings set into the Sierra Calderona.
The charterhouse, founded in 1272, still retains much of this medieval water system, one of the most remarkable in the Valencian Community. The title is at the foot in Spanish, French and English, with the signatures of Moulinier, of the etcher L. Garreau and of the engraver Dequevauviller.
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 L. Garreau.
Date: 1810.
Source: Alexandre de Laborde, Voyage pittoresque et historique de l'Espagne, published in four volumes between 1806 and 1820.
Dimensions: Plate mark 15.7 x 11.8 in (40 x 30 cm).
Condition: Good. Presented in a mat.
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Original 1810 engraving with the charterhouse of Porta Coeli (Serra, Valencia) taken from the aqueducts: the long arcade that supplied the monastery with water crosses the foreground, with the church and the outbuildings set into the Sierra Calderona.