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Title:
Tree of Guernica, the
Document number:
1092
Engraver:
Ortega, Calixto
Printer:
Establecimiento tipografico de Mellado, Madrid
Book/ Album / Dossier:
Manual del viagero en las provincias vascongadas
Format date:
1847
Physical description:
1 11 x 7 cm engraving on a 16 x 10 cm page
Notes:
Autographed. "Its grounds were chosen to hold the assemblies that had always met under the tree, [...] and in order to reconcile to a certain extent comfort with the proper respect for a custom [...], it was decided that the powers of the representatives and the oath of the royal high commissioners would be received beneath the revered oak [...]. In 1826 they began to build the current church where the oath was sworn..."
Subjects:
Art and Architecture-Civil buildings
Art and Architecture-Monuments
Natural landscape-Trees
Place names:
Gernika-Lumo - Bizkaia
Signature:
KM :(J.U. 3718) - PAG. 114 - PAG. 115
Location:
Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea
2013 Department of Culture, Youth and Sport - Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa