Antique Print-MONTREUIL-FRANCE-VIEW-Tassin-1634

‘Montreuil’

Copperplate engraving/etching with hand colouring on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 18,5 x 14 cm. (7,3 x 5,5 inch). Image size: 15 x 10,6 cm. (5,9 x 4,2 inch).

From: ‘Les plans et profils de toutes les principales villes et lieux considerables de France’, published in France 1634.

Made by ‘Christophe Tassin’ after an anonymous artist. Christophe Tassin (born in the early 1600s in France; died in 1660 in France), also known as Nicolas Tassin, Christophe Nicolas Tassin or Christophe Le Tassin, was a French cartographer, known for his atlases of France, Spain, Germany and Switzerland. Most of his work was published in Paris from 1633 to 1635.

Condition: Very good, given age. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: MONTREUIL-FRANCE-VIEW

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