Tuesday 9 June 2009

Meyer's Universum


Cintra bei Lissabon in Portugal, from steel engraving with fine detail and clear impression, nice hand coloring. Overall size is 18.4 x 27.8 cm, image size is 9.1 x 14.5 cm. Print was published in Germany in Meyer's Universum by Bibliographic Institute Hildburghausen.

2 comments:

Rubus said...

If you take of the colour and the tree on the left its just like CINTRA from a Sketch by Col. Sir Samuel Hawker. Why this difference?

Gerald Luckhurst said...

Yes you are right. The colouring is made by hand on a b+w print. However as to the tree I'm not sure. How clever of you to notice!