Title
PROFIL DE LA VILLE DE BADAIOS EN ESPAGNE.
Creator
Meunier, Louis (Printmaker), artist, printmaker.
Publication details
[Paris] : [publisher not identified], [around 1665]
Physical details
1 print : etching ; platemark 27 x 56 cm, on sheet 27.8 x 56.7 cm (bottom edge trimmed below platemark)
Description
View of Badajoz from the right bank of the Guadiana River, with travellers on horseback riding to the left in the foreground, fort of St. Cristo_bal in the middle right and Las Palmas bridge leading to Las Palmas Gate on the right; Alcazaba on a hill on the left and town beyond. Engraved with inscription 'Avec privilege du Roy' at lower right. Watermark: IHS within roundel.
Place
Badajoz (Spain)
Additional information
Faucheux includes this view in a series of plates designed and etched by Louis Meunier under the supervision of Israel Silvestre, to whom the print was once attributed.
Other persons
Silvestre, Israe_l, 1621-1691, printmaker.
Shelfmark
Maps K.Top.73.40.a.