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Recebimiento qve hizo la mvy noble y muy leal ciudad de Seuilla

Mal Lara, Juan de, 1524-1571 · 1570 · Seville : Alonso Escriuano · 57 pictures

A 1570 Seville printed account by Juan de Mal Lara of the city's welcome to King Philip II, published by Alonso Escriuano for a Spanish readership of civic and royal ceremony. The woodcut figures are allegorical women standing on plinths, each with attributes such as garlands, a staff, a jug, fruit baskets and a sheaf, a pattern a designer could reuse for classical statuary, emblem sets or pageant motifs.

Philip II, King of Spain, 1527-1598

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