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Original copper engraving of 1707: the dedication leaf of Les délices de l'Espagne et du Portugal, addressed to Gerbrant Pancras …
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Original copper engraving of 1707: the dedication leaf of Les délices de l'Espagne et du Portugal, addressed to Gerbrant Pancras Michielsz, high bailiff and councillor of the city of Amsterdam. Feigned architecture with Justice above the pediment, the dedicatee's arms and two seated allegorical figures.
The work, published in Leiden by Pieter van der Aa, is the most fully illustrated book on Spain to appear at the beginning of the 18th century; its French editions give Juan Álvarez de Colmenar as the author, probably a pseudonym.
Medium: Copper engraving
Engraver / lithographer: workshop of Pieter van der Aa (Leiden, 1659-1733); signed "J. G. In." below
Date: 1707
Source: Les délices de l'Espagne et du Portugal, Leiden, 1707
Dimensions: Plate mark 4.9 x 6.3 in (12.4 x 16 cm); sheet 6.1 x 7.0 in (15.5 x 17.8 cm)
Condition: Toned laid paper, with folds and small creases in the right and lower margins; the image within the plate mark is clean.
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