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Segovia--El Puente – Antique Wall Art

Segovia--El Puente, [between 1900 and 1910] — historic print
Segovia--El Puente, [between 1900 and 1910]. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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The aqueduct at Segovia, known locally as El Puente, is among the best-preserved Roman engineering works in Spain. Its tall double tiers of granite arches, laid without mortar, once carried water several miles from the Sierra de Guadarrama into the city, and it probably dates to the late first or early second century. This photochrom, one of the color prints from the early 1900s, shows the structure as it stood in that period, when tourists and travel publishers were drawn to Spain's Roman and medieval monuments. The process layered several stone-printed color plates over a photographic image, so the warm tones of the stone and sky are part of the print's character.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 photomechanical print : photochrom, col.
GenrePhotochrom prints Color 1900-1910.
NotesNo. 15359.
SubjectsAqueducts--Spain--Segovia--1900-1910. Archaeological sites--Spain--Segovia--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,067 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-170484

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