The image depicts shares in the Real Compañía de San Fernando de Sevilla, in favour of Pedro de Astrearena, a resident of Madrid, worth 250 pesos each.
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Representation of local customs through 18th century hunting scenes
Musical genre scene in the playful interiors of 17th century Spain by Velázquez
The image shows the layout of one of the twelve reverberatory furnaces for quicksilver metallurgy that were built in the Calle de Santa Ana of the Real de minas de Azogue de Nuestra Señora de la Concepción in New Spain. These furnaces were made on the outside of brick and lime, to resist water, and on the inside of brick and clay, to preserve the fire. The picture explains how they worked.
Print from the memoirs of Antoine de Jussieu. Aludel furnace and equipment for the distillation of mercury used in the Almadén mines.
Velázquez’s depiction of domestic service in 17th-century Spain
Views of the Alcázar in 17th century Madrid before the fatal accident on Christmas Eve 1734
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