Artist: Giovanni Tommaso Borgonio (Italian, 1620-1691), famous calligrapher, miniaturist and cartographer. Within the framework of the editorial project "Theatrum Sabaudiae", Borgonio was the author of a large number of tables.
Engraver: an anonymous engraver worked for the Blau printing house, which employed about 800 people.
Title: View of Hautecombe Abbey.
Titled in plate: Abbaye d'Hautecombe.
Dimensions: Image plus legend/ platemark 15 1/4" x 19 1/2". Sheet 21 1/2" x 26".
Printer: The Blaeu family served as third-generation publishers until the enterprise shuttered in 1706. The printing shop had been liquidated by 1695, with a large number of copper plates which were auctioned to Frederik de Wit.
Edition: Theatrum Statuum Regiae Celsitudinis Sabaudiae Ducis Pedemontii Principis Cypris Regis (multiple editions late XVII/early XVIII C).
Date: ca 1674, possibly printed later.
Materials and Techniques: engraving on laid paper, folded as issued.
Provenance: The Estate of George "Yorgo" Demetrakopoulos; professor, assistant director of the Medieval Institute, and assistant to the dean at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, from 1965-2000.
Condition: Wear, broken corners, spots, tears. The signs of aging are appropriate for the time. A detailed condition report is available on demand.
Museums and Libraries: Catalogo generale dei Beni Culturali
0100206517.
Art Movements, Periods & Schools: Italian School XVII C. Dutch school XVII C.
Acknowledgement: This entry incorporates text from Wikipedia and the catalog entry of a similar item from the Catalogo generale dei Beni Culturali.