Live auction - Lot 901
[Spain]
4 views on 2 sheets: "Barcelona [...]. Éciia." and "Conil [...]. Xeres de la Frontera.".
[Cologne, G. von Kempen]
Hammer price: €
400
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
Engr., 31,4/32,8 x 46,3/47,2 cm, hand-coloured.
Hinged at upper edges. Under passe-partout.
1. A view on Barcelona, with its busy port, combined with a view on Écija (instead of the earlier view of Granada). 3rd state. (Marg. damp stains sl. affecting corners). - 2. Pushed into the background by the fisheries scenes in the front, a view on Conil de la Frontera, with underneath a view on Jerez de la Frontera, renowned for the "Caballo cartujano" (Andalusian horse breed) depicted in the foreground. First state. (Light traces of vertical folds). From the 1575 Latin (2) and 1582 German (1) "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" (text on verso, leaf 6 & unnumbered f.).
Ref. Van der Krogt [Barcelona;etc:41.3] & [Conil;Jerez:41.1].