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Photo, Print, Drawing Representation of Hispalis, Generally Known as Seville, World-Famous City and Renowned in Spain. Hispalis vulgo Siviliae urbis toto orbe celeberrimae hispaniæque primariæ effigies

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Title

  • Representation of Hispalis, Generally Known as Seville, World-Famous City and Renowned in Spain.

Other Title

  • Hispalis vulgo Siviliae urbis toto orbe celeberrimae hispaniæque primariæ effigies

Summary

  • This panoramic view of Seville in 1619 is from the collection of cityscapes and broadsheets that once belonged to the Swedish statesman Count Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie (1622-86). At the bottom of the engraving is a description of the city, printed in 16 columns, in French. The print shows Seville from the right bank of the Guadalquivir River, with the Triana Bridge on the left, and the Spanish fleet below the Golden Tower on the right. The Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie Collection consists of 187 engravings from the late 1500s and early 1600s. The prints originally were bound, ordered, and assigned a number. The early provenance of the collection is uncertain. After perusing the correspondence of King Gustav II Adolf and the Dutch philologist and diplomat Johannes Rutgersius, the former national librarian of Sweden E.W. Dahlgren conjectured that the pictures were ordered by the king and purchased by Rutgersius. The collection later was incorporated into the library of Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, then deposited in the Archive of Antiquities at the end of the 17th century, only to be transferred to the Royal Library in 1780. An exhaustive catalog of the collection was published by Isak Collijn in 1915, Magnus Gabriel de la Gardie's samling af äldre stadsvyer och historiska planscher i Kungl. Biblioteket. Dahlgren provides an account of the early provenance of the collection in his article, "Miscellanea" in Nordisk tidskrift för bok- och biblioteksväsen (1920).

Created / Published

  • Amsterdam : Johannes Janssonius, 1617.

Headings

  • -  Spain--Andalucía--Seville
  • -  1617
  • -  Bell towers
  • -  Cathedrals
  • -  Churches
  • -  Cities and towns
  • -  City walls
  • -  Cityscapes
  • -  Guadalquivir River (Spain)
  • -  Panoramic views
  • -  Ships

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  "Shelfmark: KoB DelaG 82"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 etching ; 49 x 227 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: National Library of Sweden.
  • -  Content in Latin.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • Magnus Gabriel de la Gardie Collection

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021670740

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • image

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Representation of Hispalis, Generally Known as Seville, World-Famous City and Renowned in Spain. Andalucía Spain Seville, 1617. Amsterdam: Johannes Janssonius. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670740/.

APA citation style:

(1617) Representation of Hispalis, Generally Known as Seville, World-Famous City and Renowned in Spain. Andalucía Spain Seville, 1617. Amsterdam: Johannes Janssonius. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670740/.

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Representation of Hispalis, Generally Known as Seville, World-Famous City and Renowned in Spain. Amsterdam: Johannes Janssonius. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021670740/>.