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Sebastián Fernández de MEDRANO (1645-1705) Jacobus HARREWIJN (1650-1727) (engraver) Carta Geographica de una moderna descripcion, de el IMPERIO de la RUSIA BLANCA, o gran DUCADO de MOSCOVIA, y de un viaje que un embaxador de el CZAR de MOSCOVIA, hizo, atravesando toda la TARTARIA MAYOR, al IMPERADOR de la CHINA. ("Carte géographique d'une description moderne de l'EMPIRE de RUSSIE BLANCHE, ou Grand-Duché de Moscovie, et d'un voyage qu'un ambassadeur du TSAR de MOSCOU fait, traversant toute la TARTARIA MAJEURE, chez l'EMPEREUR de CHINA"). Etching. Lower left, a cartel of Russian ethnographic drawings contains the title. At bottom right, an architectural element surmounted by Chinese ethnographic drawings bears the author's name below the scale: "Delineada por Alberto Fernandez Juaquin Mienson Discipulo de al Autor" (Drawn for Alberto Fernandez Juaquin Mienson disciple of the author) and signed by the engraver at far right. Antwerp, 1709. [Printed by Henricus and Cornelius Verdussen]. 29 x 42.5 cm Sebastian de Medrano (or de Mora), Spanish military engineer, general, director of the Brussels Military Academy. Alberto Mienson (XVII - after 1722), professor at the Brussels Military Academy, colonel and military engineer. Jacobus Harrewijn, Brussels engraver.
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Sebastián Fernández de MEDRANO (1645-1705) Jacobus HARREWIJN (1650-1727) (engraver) Carta Geographica de una moderna descripcion, de el IMPERIO de la RUSIA BLANCA, o gran DUCADO de MOSCOVIA, y de un viaje que un embaxador de el CZAR de MOSCOVIA, hizo, atravesando toda la TARTARIA MAYOR, al IMPERADOR de la CHINA. ("Carte géographique d'une description moderne de l'EMPIRE de RUSSIE BLANCHE, ou Grand-Duché de Moscovie, et d'un voyage qu'un ambassadeur du TSAR de MOSCOU fait, traversant toute la TARTARIA MAJEURE, chez l'EMPEREUR de CHINA"). Etching. Lower left, a cartel of Russian ethnographic drawings contains the title. At bottom right, an architectural element surmounted by Chinese ethnographic drawings bears the author's name below the scale: "Delineada por Alberto Fernandez Juaquin Mienson Discipulo de al Autor" (Drawn for Alberto Fernandez Juaquin Mienson disciple of the author) and signed by the engraver at far right. Antwerp, 1709. [Printed by Henricus and Cornelius Verdussen]. 29 x 42.5 cm Sebastian de Medrano (or de Mora), Spanish military engineer, general, director of the Brussels Military Academy. Alberto Mienson (XVII - after 1722), professor at the Brussels Military Academy, colonel and military engineer. Jacobus Harrewijn, Brussels engraver.
