Live auction - Lot 898
[Spain - Granada]
Amoenissimus castri Granatensis, vulgo Alhambre dicti, ab oriente prospectus.
[Cologne, 1600]
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
Engr., 36,1 x 47,3 cm, hand-coloured (light traces of central fold).
Hinged at upper edge. Under passe-partout.
Large view on the Alhambra, with the city of Granada in the front. Underneath 3 smaller views of the city's gate, the Masmoros caves and an "aljibe" (a cistern). First state, from the 1600 Latin "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" (text on verso, leaf 14).
Ref. Van der Krogt [Granada{Pr}:41.1-2].