The City of Richelieu in Poictou, View of Richelieu from a bird's-eye perspective, print, album page, This print is part of an album., publisher: Caspar Merian, Frankfurt am Main, colorer (graphic design artist): Anna Beeck, The Hague, 1657, Caspar Merian, Anna Beeck, printmaker, publisher, colorer (graphic design artist), Hesse, paper, engraving, hand coloring, hand-colored, cut within the plate edge and pasted in a hand-colored frame, title cut out of the image and glued above, surrounding sky and clouds hand-painted, height 345 mm x width 288 mm, height 532 mm x width 320 mm, A wide hand-colored engraving showing a fortified town with high walls and corner towers beside a moat, a grid of streets and tightly packed buildings within the walls, and two tall church spires rising above the rooftops; the foreground shows grassy land and a road leading to a gate with small groups of people and scattered trees, while the midground features rolling hills with patches of vegetation and the ba...
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The City of Richelieu in Poictou, View of Richelieu from a bird's-eye perspective, print, album page, This print is part of an album., publisher: Caspar Merian, Frankfurt am Main, colorer (graphic design artist): Anna Beeck, The Hague, 1657, Caspar Merian, Anna Beeck, printmaker, publisher, colorer (graphic design artist), Hesse, paper, engraving, hand coloring, hand-colored, cut within the plate edge and pasted in a hand-colored frame, title cut out of the image and glued above, surrounding sky and clouds hand-painted, height 345 mm x width 288 mm, height 532 mm x width 320 mm, A wide hand-colored engraving showing a fortified town with high walls and corner towers beside a moat, a grid of streets and tightly packed buildings within the walls, and two tall church spires rising above the rooftops; the foreground shows grassy land and a road leading to a gate with small groups of people and scattered trees, while the midground features rolling hills with patches of vegetation and the background is dominated by a broad sky painted in soft blue and pink tones with layered cloud formations.

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Photo12/Liszt Collection

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City Richelieu Poictou View bird's-eye perspective print album page part album publisher Caspar Merian Frankfurt am Main colorer graphic design artist Anna Beeck Hague 1657 printmaker Hesse paper engraving hand coloring hand-colored cut within plate edge pasted hand-colored frame title cut image glued surrounding sky clouds hand-painted height 345 mm x width 288 mm height 532 mm x 320 mm wide hand-colored showing fortified town high walls corner towers beside moat grid streets tightly packed buildings within walls two tall church spires rising rooftops foreground grassy land road leading gate small groups people scattered trees midground features rolling hills patches vegetation background dominated broad sky painted soft blue pink tones layered cloud formations

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