- Title
- Vista da Cidada de Lisboa Tomada da Junqueira = Vue de la ville de Lisbonne prise de la Junqueira : Dedicada a Sua Alteza Real O Principe Regent de Portugal &c. &c. &c. Pelo Seu Muito Humilde e Reverente Criado Henrique L'Eve_que. / H.L'Eve_que del.t et sculp.t.
- Creator
- L'Eve_que, Henri, 1769-1832, printmaker, artist, publisher.
- Publication details
- London : Published October 1816 by H. L'Eve_que, 14 Brompton Row, [October 1816]
- Physical details
- 1 print : hand-coloured aquatint and etching ; platemark 52.7 x 73.3 cm, on sheet 55 x 82.8 cm
- Description
- View of Lisbon from the East, with men, women and children eating watermelon, drinking and listening to musicians play bagpipes, castanets, and drums while sailors load and unload barges in the foreground, men carry baskets of bread and large cauldrons, and a priest on a carriage leaves the palace on the left; children playing, fishermen mending nets, women doing laundry, Lisbon harbour and town in the background.
- Place
- Lisbon (Portugal)
- Additional information
- The palace on the left, now called Pala_cio Burnay, was also known as Pala_cio dos Patriarcas. In the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-centuries, it was used as a summer residence by the Bishop of Lisbon.
- Other persons
- Joa_o VI, King of Portugal, 1767-1826, dedicatee.
- Shelfmark
- Maps K.Top.74.66.c.2.
