Auction 90 Part 1 Antiques & Works of Art
Dec 14, 2020
Spain
 Calle Montesa, nº31, 28006 - Madrid (Spain)
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LOT 46:

Pedro Texeira Albernaz (Lisboa c.1595 - Madrid 1662)
"Topografía de la Villa de Madrid" ...


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Pedro Texeira Albernaz (Lisboa c.1595 - Madrid 1662)
"Topografía de la Villa de Madrid" 1656
Engraving in 20 folios
Glued to the support
169 x 240 cm
700 - 900 €

Pedro Texeira Albernaz (Lisboa c.1595 - Madrid 1662), disciple of the cartographer Juan Bautista Labaña, also Portuguese, who taught in the Academia Real Mathematica of Madrid directed by Juan de Herrera.
His main work was the "Mantua Carpetatorum sive Matritum Urbs Regia" more popularly known as "El plano de Texeira", map of Madrid comissioned by the King Philip IV of Spain and finished in 1656.